2015 – My Quilting Resolutions

Here we go.....

This is my first Blog post and I hope you will come along with me on my many quilting adventures.  To start out (only a few days late), I am posting my list of Quilting Resolutions.

Please leave a short comment as to the Quilting Resolution you are going to work on the hardest and maybe the one that sounds the most daunting (that would be number 8 and 9 for me!)

1. Make Quilting my Business – Start a Blog (can I Blog at least once a week?), make business cards, figure out my logo and colors (purple), let more individuals know I will make a quilt for commission.
2. Design more quilt patterns – maybe print and publish 1 or 2 this year.  Think publishing them on Craftsy.  Great Place!
3. Give Back – Donate at least 2 quilts during 2015.
4. Teach a class – either at my LQS or to a small group in my home, what about one of my daughters and some of her friends?
5. Enter a Quilt Competition – sounds scary, this may have to wait a year but I wanted it on the list so I don’t forget.
6. All Christmas gifts completed by Thanksgiving – no more waiting until the day before we leave on Christmas vacation, plan and execute early.
7. Make a quilt using all solids (again!) – Always fun.
8. De-Stash – Use my “Stash” more for new projects and go through my “Stash” and give away or sell what I will not use in this lifetime.  Remember to organize as I go.  Don’t forget to throw away what is really trash.
9. Rearrange and decorate my Quilt Studio – including painting (but only after the de-stashing and organizing).
10. Complete some “overdue” projects – Finish up Modern Log Cabin (in the quilting phase), Complete top for Commission (Black & Gold Hourglass – hopefully by end of February 2015)
11. Take a quilt on a “Real” Photo Shoot.
12. Make 2-3 Mini Quilts – have some patterns, have the fabric, now just start.  Complete Mini-Spools for the curtain trim in the Sewing Studio.
13. Keep my Quilt Log up-to-date – add to Quilting Scrapbook all Sewing and Quilting Projects.  Make Sections (Mini Quilts, Small Quilts, Lap Quilts, Large/Bed Quilts & Other Sewing) & have this as my Portfolio.
14. Teach my children the love of quilting – Finish up Miss M’s purple Railfence and work with Miss K on her new quilt.
15. Find time – Three or more days a week need to have something quilt-related in them, maybe even just petting some fabric and taking time to dream.  Does waking up in the middle of the night dreaming about a quilt pattern count?
16. Improve my FMQ – that means more than swirls and straight-line quilting.  Practice, Practice, Practice.
17. Learn a new (or forgotten) technique – Paper Piecing is always fun, but it has been several years since I have tried this.  Will have to try this again.
18. Value my time – Remember that my time and ideas are valuable.  Charge for my time and effort appropriately. 
19. Remember the Basics – and practice them.  Log Cabin, Dresden Plate – just do them in modern fabrics.
20. Enjoy the process that is quilting...

Enjoy the adventure with me,

Shelly