My goals for February were: - finish Red Sunset - quilt 8 veterans quilts - make placemats for my nephew and I did all that and a little more! Once the quilting was done on Red Sunset I needed to catch up on veterans quilts. I set a goal of 8 but ultimately finished 15! Chris and I even had time for a little vacation and I got some more chemo hats made. I used 4 balls of yarn in February.
My current stats: Quilts - 1 Veterans quilts quilted - 14 Pet Beds - 6 Crochet blankets - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 5 Placemats and Table Runners - 6 Other Donated items - 102 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used or gifted - 15 My goals for March are: - finish 3 sets of placemats that are already quilted - quilt 6 more veterans quilts -quilt a quilt for Anne - quilt he blue quilt We have friends visiting for a few weeks in March and I have a trip at the end of the month so I expect I'll do more crochet than anything. I'm not sure I'll have the time to get a ton of quilting done. But it's good to have the goals!
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2024 got off to a great start for me with the completion and donation of 102 surgery drain bags. I didn't really intend to make that many but I started cutting fabric and had a hard time stopping! I also made 7 pet beds for donation, finished my purple cardigan (that I wear often) and finished a blanket for a friend. The two biggest projects that I worked on this month are the Red Sunset quilt and the blue quilt top. The blue quilt top is done and read for quilting. Red Sunset needs to be off the longarm in the next week, there are a lot of veterans quilts that need quilting!
I've got 3 crochet projects underway, not including my travel hat bag. In January I finished off 7 balls of yarn and donated 4, for a total of 11. My yarn stash is starting to get under some semblance of control. Here are the current stats: Quilts - Veterans quilts made - Donation lap quilts - Veterans quilts quilted - Fabric Postcards - Pet Beds - 6 Quilted for others - Crochet blankets - 1 Crochet shawls - Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - Placemats and Table Runners - Dyed shirts and towels - Other Donated items - 102 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used or gifted - 11 Other items - My goals for February are: - finish Red Sunset - quilt 8 veterans quilts - make placemats for my nephew The last two things I finished in December were a hat for my brother and a dyed quilt back. This quilt back is for my Red Sunset quilt. I hope to get it loaded for quilting soon. I delivered my hat to my brother Saturday and it seemed to fit well. Most of December was all about Christmas. I made 81 Christmas postcards and dyed 10 beach towels for gifts. I enjoyed doing all of them. For my own projects, I finished 3 veterans quilts. The rest of my accomplishments included quilting a quilt for a friend, quilting 7 veterans quilts, 2 crochet shawls for donation and 4 birthday postcards. Here are my stats for all of 2032 and I keep a summary page here for everything I made in 2023. Quilts - 2 Veterans quilts made - 15 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 41 Fabric Postcards - 105 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 7 Crochet blankets - 9 Crochet shawls - 2 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 40 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 18 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used or gifted - 89 Other items - 5 As far as the futile attempt to reduce the amount of stuff in my stash, I used or gave away 89 balls of yarn. I did buy some yard but not even half this much. I used 10 spools/cones of thread and I gave away another 7 cones to people quilting donation quilts. I think the only thread I bought this year was 2 spools for my Christmas postcards.
As far as 2024, I don't have any specific goals except to keep making stuff. I do have a few UFO quilts that I'd like to get done or dealt with: Blue Bowtie quilt Vintage Flower applique on white - needs quilting Red Sunset - needs quilting And then I have 2 true UFO projects that I should decide what to do with: Loony Moony - started June 2018 Flora's Stars (8 quilts, 1 project) But just for January I want to: - finish a set of surgery drain bags for donation - make some donation pet beds - load the Red Sunset quilt and start quilting - put the blue bowtie top together - placemats for a brother and nephew - finish my crochet sweater - finish Win's crochet blanket As I write this post I'm still at the river with my friends and I just wanted to share the spectacular sunset from last night. We are having a lovely time. I even got the rest of my postcards stitched! When I get home I still have a little work to do on each design but it won't take too long to finish them and I should be able to get them in the mail by December 10th. That's my first goal of December. The postcards were my main project for November As I look back over November I'm really happy with everything I got accomplished, starting with these 2 quilts that I quilted. One is a raffle quilt for my quilt club and the other is a quilt for a friend. On top of those, there were 6 veterans quilts. One of them is one of my quilts so, hopefully, that will be a finish for December. I even had 2 weeks of vacation during the month and used a good bit of that time to crochet some hats and finish off a scrappy donation blanket. I finished 8 hats and the 1 blanket.
Here are my YTD stats: Quilts - 2 Other major projects - Veterans quilts made - 12 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 33 Fabric Postcards - 20 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 6 Crochet blankets - 9 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 39 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 7 Pillows - Other Donated items - 74 Bags and totes - Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 57 Other items - 5 My goals for December are: - make placemats for my brother - placemats for my nephew - make 80 Christmas postcards - this is the most important goal - work on the blue quilt - quilt 6 veterans quilt - quilt a quilt for Kim - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt - dye beach towels for Christmas gifts - make some pet beds for donation to get rid of a bunch of batting scraps - make some birthday cards I had big goals for October and, as usual, I didn't get them all done. But I got plenty accomplished. To recap (for myself), my goals were: - enjoy a vacation - indeed we did - make placemats for my brother - no - placemats for my nephew - no - quilt the guild fundraiser quilt - almost done! - finish and deliver the Paula quilt - check! - finish the second baby blanket (on vacation) - made 2 more baby quilts - crochet 2 children's hats for gifts (on vacation) - made 4 hats - start the Christmas cards - working on ideas I'll add the following as a wish list: - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt that I pieced on vacation last summer - quilt 6 veterans quilts - -quilt some donation lap quilts Of course my main accomplishment was this quilt, A Little of Everything. It's a sample quilt for Paula Nadelstern's new line of fabric and there was a hard deadline. So really, that was my main goal for the month. My two other quilting projects for the month were the big blue quilt and the raffle quilt. The raffle quilt will be done tomorrow and the blue quilt will be done whenever it's done. I did get one veterans quilt quilted and I look forward to quilting lots more in the next few weeks. My main focus for the month was crochet. I was working on the baby blankets and baby hat for the shower a couple of weeks ago. Then I finished 4 hats for Thanksgiving gifts. It was a good crochet month! I used 9 skeins of yarn.
That's not bad for a month's activity that included a vacation. My stats as of the end of October: Quilts - 2 Veterans quilts made - 12 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 28 Fabric Postcards - 19 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 4 Crochet blankets - 8 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 27 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 7 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 57 Other items - 5 My goals for November are: - make placemats for my brother - placemats for my nephew - finish quilting the guild fundraiser quilt - make 80 Christmas postcards - this is the most important goal - work on the blue quilt I'll add the following as a wish list: - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt that I pieced on vacation last summer - quilt 6 veterans quilts - -quilt some donation lap quilts Let's face it, with vacation and Mom moving, I didn't finish much at all. Before we left in early August I finished 3 veterans quilts and 2 crochet hats. In September I finished a baby blanket for my new Grand Niece. The big accomplishment was Mom and I getting her move done and her apartment all set up. She's settled in and has the sewing room in full operation. I also got 2 veterans quilts quilted. These tops were donated my a kind blog reader and our veterans will love them! That's the extent of my finishes and I'm fine with that. There were a number of starts however! On vacation Laura pieced 2 veterans quilt tops that need to be quilted and I started the blue bow tie quilt. I sewed together 4 placemats from the leftovers of one of the veterans quilts and started a second baby blanket. Back at home I restarted another big blanket and I'll explain that in another post. I also started quilting a guild raffle quilt. But the big project that I'm working on this week is the Paula quilt. We leave Saturday for another (shorter) vacation and I want it done and in the mail before we leave. As of today it's on the longarm, ready for quilting. It would be really cool if I could also get the raffle quilt quilted before we leave too.
I'm not holding my breath. Here are my YTD stats: Quilts - 2 Other major projects - Veterans quilts made - 11 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 25 Fabric Postcards - 19 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 4 Crochet blankets - 7 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 26 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 7 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 48 (8 for August and September) Other items - 5 My goals for October are: - enjoy a vacation - make placemats for my brother - placemats for my nephew - quilt the guild fundraiser quilt - finish and deliver the Paula quilt - finish the second baby blanket (on vacation) - crochet 2 children's hats for gifts (on vacation) - start the Christmas cards I'll add the following as a wish list: - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt that I pieced on vacation last summer - quilt 6 veterans quilts - -quilt some donation lap quilts ...because I don't have any goals for August! July 2023 will forever be known as "Goldfinch month". It doesn't matter what else I finished in July, The Goldfinch is done and ready to hang in the exhibit in September. I did actually finish a few more things including 2 crochet blankets and I quilted a quilt for Mom. She got it bound this weekend and it will be delivered to her Granddaughter later this month. I used up 4 balls of yarn, gave away 4 and didn't buy any. I expect I'll use a lot more in August. I do a lot of crochet in the evenings on vacation. I even made a batch of pet beds for donation and dyed myself some new tshirts for the summer.
I had several goals for July that didn't get done and I'll just seed the September list with them: - make placemats for my brother - placemats for my nephew - quilt a guild fundraiser quilt I'll add the following: - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt that I pieced on vacation last summer - quilt 6 veterans quilts - -quilt some donation lap quilts My current stats are: Quilts - 2 Veterans quilts made - 8 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 25 Fabric Postcards - 19 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 4 Crochet blankets - 4 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 24 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 7 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 40 Other items - 5 My goals for June were: - another set of birthday postcards - done - make pet beds with all the batting scraps I've accumulated - not done - quilt 6 veterans quilts - done - finish quilting Mom's floral quilt - progress made - bind and label the firefighter quilt - done and gifted! - get the Goldfinch quilt top made - big time done - placemats for my brother - not even started Maybe I didn't get ALL of my goals accomplished (I never do) but it was a fantastic month. The two big projects were to complete the Fighter Quilt and get the Goldfinch top done and I did both! I even made a table runner to go with the Firefighter quilt. I did hit my goal of quilting 6 veterans quilts and most of there were bound by the makers and delivered to the VA at our July meeting. I just love quilting these quilts. They are stress-free quilting and I know that these quilts do make a difference in people's lives. The two backpacks took up more time than I anticipated but they were fun and rewarding projects. I also got two more veterans quilt tops done and they are ready for quilting at some point.
I crocheted 2 hats while I worked the primary precinct, dyed 3 maternity tops for my niece and had a blast making 8 Martian postcards. I made some progress on other crochet projects and at least one of them will be done in July. I used a total of 7 balls of yarn but I also gave away about 12 balls to a young crochet friend....so I'm counting 19 to offset the 16 new balls that I bought for 2 new projects. MyYTD stats are: Quilts - 1 Veterans quilts made - 8 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 25 Fabric Postcards - 11 Quilted for others - 3 Crochet blankets - 3 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 24 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 3 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 32 Other items - 5 I can't believe we are already halfway through 2023. It's going extra fast! My goals for July are: - plan my sewing and crochet projects for our trip to Maine - finish quilting Mom's quilt. That should happen in the next few days - quilt and finish the Goldfinch - make placemats for my brother - my nephew requested new placemats but they might not get done until September - at least start quilting a guild fundraiser quilt - make pet beds There's no way all this gets done because I also have to do packing for a month-long trip in between. But I'll put on some good audiobooks and give it my best shot. May was definitely the month of placemats. I made 18 of them and they were well received at this year's beach gifts. It was my primary goal for the month and I met it. I want to make one more set for my other brother so that will be on the June list. My other goals for May were: - quilt Mom's baby quilt - done - quilt and finish the firefighter quilt - quilted, not yet bound - start the Goldfinch quilt - started pulling fabrics - Mother's Day and birthday postcards - done I also made a ton of soap. It will be ready sometime in late June. In between I worked on some crochet projects but only finished 5 hats for donation. I used up 5 balls of yarn this month. that's not a lot but it's enough. I've been really good about no adding to my stash so any amount out is a positive.
My YTD stats: Veterans quilts made - 8 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 19 Fabric Postcards - 11 Quilted for others - 3 Crochet blankets - 3 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 24 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats - 24 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 32 Other items - 3 My goals for June are pretty ambitious but, at a minimum, I want to stick to this list of projects: - another set of birthday postcards - make pet beds with all the batting scraps I've accumulated - quilt 6 veterans quilts - finish quilting Mom's floral quilt - bind and label the firefighter quilt - get the Goldfinch quilt top made - placemats for my brother Chris and I started off April with colds so that put a little damper on my plans for the month. But, I'm not disappointed with what I did get done. My list os always longer than it's possible to accomplish. My goals for April were: - make some birthday postcards - done - make a set of placemats - done! - finish quilting Mom's quilt - didn't even look at it - quilt some veterans quilts - 13 of them to be exact! - make a new hiking backpack - I quilted veterans quilts instead My big accomplishment of the month was quilting 12 veterans quilts for quilt club members and finishing one of my own. It's nice to have the to-be-quilted closet empty of veterans quilts for the time being. The closet still has a lot of other quilts that need to be quilted and 3 of them are queen size. With the leftovers of the veterans quilt, I made a set of 4 placemats. This is another set that I'll take to the beach at the end of this month to gift to my family. I should be able to get one more set made before we go. While I was down with the cold I didn't want to do much except crochet so I finished 5 baby hats and 2 men's chemo hats. I only finished off 3 skeins of yarn this month but at least I didn't buy any! Finally, I got some postcards made for some special birthdays.
Here are my YTD stats: Veterans quilts made - 8 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 19 Fabric Postcards - 3 Quilted for others - 2 Crochet blankets - 3 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 19 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats - 16 Other Donated items - 74 Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 24 Other items - 3 My goals for May are: - make 2 more placemat sets for beach gifts - quilt Mom's baby quilt - quilt and finish the firefighter quilt - start the Goldfinch quilt - Mother's Day and birthday postcards |
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