Goodbye 2024! Welcome 2025! A new year with overly ambitious plans as usual. We are off to a slow start but I did put together plans for January. I have not really thought about what I would like to accomplish in 2025 other than quilt & bind 12 quilts. I want to turn those quilt tops into finished quilts.
I will be linking up with Carol at Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday link up. Thank you Carol for hosting.
Under the Needle Last Week
I spent 30 minutes here and 30 minutes there working in the sewing room this week. I have almost sewn up everything I have precut.
I was able to:
- Finish assembling all 4 dragonfruit corner units. Two this week and two last week. This the Block of the Month with Fat Quarter Shop – Dragonfruit.
- Finished a third tree unit for my tree/car block of the Bring Home the Tree quilt by Lori Holt from her Vintage Christmas book.
- Finished assembling another leaders and enders block – this orange churn dash and started another one.
- (not pictured). Worked on labelling and organizing pieces to fuse for Blooming Snowflakes
January Goals
We finished discussing what I did and didn’t get done for December so I see no need to rehash old news. Let’s take a look at my top goals for January 2025.
- SAL: 2024 SJ Temperature Cottage Quilt: Finish December cottage. Start on border
- SAL: 2024 Venti AG Sunprint FPP quilt: Assemble center of top. Cut border. Start assembling border
- SAL: 2024 TP Dragonfruit FPP quilt: Finish assembling corner sections from Month 1 & 2. Cut Month 3 blocks. Assemble Month 3 blocks.
- SAL: Leaders & Enders Churn Dash blocks. Make 2
- SAL: Steven’s Rail Fence: Sew 2 strips. Cut 12 blocks from sewn strips.
- EPP: Farmers Wife 1920: Finish block 48
- EPP: Ruby’s Garden: Start Block 25
- Applique: Finish Blooming Snowflakes
- Applique: Start Year in Words Valentine
- Applique: Start & Finish February Gnome
- Small Project: Finish Patriotic tablerunner
- UFO: 2022 Bring Home the Tree: Make 6 car/tree blocks.
- UFO: 2017-2019 Halifax HST Temperature quilt: September 2018
- Long Arm: 2021 Sunshine quilt – quilt it
This Week’s To Do List
- Work on finishing Blooming Snowflakes. Step 1 fuse shapes to background.
- Assemble 2024 Venti AG Sunprint quilt top center
- Cut month 3 Dragonfruit BOM blocks
- Cut 4 rail fence blocks from strip set
- Cut two car units for Bring Home the Tree
- Sew 1 tree unit for Bring Home the Tree
- Work on Farmers Wife block 48
- Continue working on L&E: churn dash block
- Stay focused🐿️
Afterthoughts
I decided that this year I am not going to put out a 2025 UFO list to work on. It hasn’t worked for me for the past 5 years. For now, I will let it go. Instead, I will focus on monthly goals for myself and see how it goes. As I mentioned in the opening, I would like to finish completely 12 quilts this year. I have enough tops ready to be quilted to make this happen. I would also like to final finish a few small projects that have been hanging out in my sewing room – tablerunners, placemats, project bags, and wall hangings. I made a nice dent last year and want to continue that trend.
The UFO goal will be to finish one project each month.
Here we come 2025!
Wishing you a happy creative and productive week. Thanks for stopping by.
Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, CA
I’m glad you and your kitties are far away from the wildfires! Your Dragonfruit project is beautiful, and I love your churn dash blocks (one of my favorite blocks). Good luck with your goals!