2023 Goals...a new year with changes from previous years

NOTE TO READERS:  This post features quilts you have seen already lately and is mostly for my own record keeping.  I am not really trying to bore you with repetition. 

New in 2023:

• I joined the Stashbee and look forward to doing a block each month for someone else.
• I also joined a local round robin which involves making two blocks a month for someone else.
• I plan to start AND FINISH several projects I purchased last year.  My intent is to finish it within or close to a year of purchase.
• Scrub Stitching Retreat in Australia - yay yay hooray!!!

Continue in 2023:

• 15 Minutes to Stitch weekly check-ins
• Attend my local guild quilt retreat again
• Continue participating in the 350 blocks challenge hosted by Prairie Moon

Changes and UFO Lists

I have loved participating in Gail's UFO Challenge each year.  I get so much done and reduce my new starts when I participate.  This challenge really makes me think twice before starting something new because you have to finish it within the year.  Well, this year I don't have 12 UFOs.  Yay!  That means I am doing so good on getting all those quilts done!

Even though I can't participate (not enough UFOs), I am still making a list of what needs to be completed and also finishing all my new starts in 2023.  My list is below. 

2023 UFOS & WIPS
#	Name of Quilt	Date Started	Date Top Done	Date finished
1	Quilted Barns UFO	Jan 2011
2	Disney Princesses WIP	Dec 2018
3	Color My World WIP	Mar 2021		2023
4	Crazy Quilty Ladies WIP	March 2022		2023
5	Cherry Fizz Bloom  WIP	June 2022		May 23
6	Gingerbread Square UFO
7	Omigosh leader/ender	May 2010
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2023 NewFOs ( new starts this year)
#	Name of Quilt	Date Started	Date Top Done	Date Finished
1	Red Pinwheel	Jan 2023	March 2023	April 2023
2	Tillie Pinwheel	Jan 2023	March 2023	March 2023
3	Buggy Barn Flowers	April 2023	May 2023	2023
4	Tulip Garden	April 2023	May 2023	2023
5	Sports Braid	April 2023	May 2023	2023
6	Tulip Winner	May 2023	June 2023
7	Celestial Star	April 2023
8	Diddles Bag	April 2023	Bag	April 2023
9	Nutmeg BOM	May 2023	BOM
10	Kaffe BOM	May 2023	BOM
11	Country Rose BOM	May 2023	BOM
12	Jewels of the Caribbean BOM	May 2023	BOM
13	Spring Mother’s Day Mystery	June 2023	BOM
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The Patchwork Quilting UFO Challenge is also a big motivator for me.  It is super fun to see what number will pop up each month to tell us which quilt to work on.  I have also decided to abandon it this year.  I want certain quilts done in certain months.

Here is the state each quilt is in as of Dec 31st:

#1 Quilted Barns - goal is just make progress on it.  Maybe I will make the windmill and add to it.

#2 Color My World - Goal is a completed quilt.  I only have 6 more blocks to make and then it will be ready for assembly and borders.

#3 Make 4-5 Disney Princess Blocks - Elsa, Anna, Merida,  & Cinderella.  I might make one more.  We shall see.

Princess Castle - The princesses above are all set inside castle windows.  The goal is to piece the castle, finish the top, quilt and bind.

#4 Crazy Quilty Ladies - Goal is to finish each of them and get them sewn together into a top.  

I will likely make sewing machines and other sewy things to go between the rows.  I am thinking of pulling blocks from my Quilter's Garden pattern but don't want to get too crazy with it.

#5 Cherry Fizz Bloom - Goal is a complete finish.  It just needs borders and then sent off to the quilter.

#5 Gingerbread Square - These will take forever and are just meant to be hand work while traveling.  There is no way I will shoot to finish them in 2023.  Maybe I could get one more done.  There are a total of 9.

Omigosh - this one is not really a goal I plan to focus on too much.  I have no intention of finishing this one this year.  I will do it as a leader/ender.  

One lonely little shoe fly block sits among the other 10 nine patch blocks.  It has a long long way to go.

2022 350 blocks challenge

 I am participating in the 350 blocks challenge by Prairie Moon again this year.  

December blocks made: 64

Total YTD for 2022:  596

5 Barns 

3 silo

6 houses 

2 church

4 trucks

3 snow white (she counts as three blocks because she was a ton of work).

13 Bloom blocks

13 Setting blocks

1 Amanda

1 Bernice

3 project bags

1 Bind Windmill

1 Bind Flower Power 

8 Cat blocks

Snow White...

 She is pieced! It seems like I only made one princess this year and only one the year before.  Hopefully I can do a couple more this month. 

Here are all the complete ones together.  I hope to make Cinderella this week.

FNwF, Princess overload, & Late To Do Tuesday

 I got quite a bit done this weekend.  My daughter came with three kids in tow.  We sewed together, and I enjoyed the grands.

My Masterpiece top is done complete with border.  The backing is pieced as well and ready for quilting.  The binding is cut but not sewn yet.  It measures 91 x 107. It is massive!!

I also made this little Santa block.

My daughter worked on her princess quilt and has begun putting the castle together.  She added a princess (princess and the frog).  I am waiting to see how hers turns out - fitting it into the castle - with the extra one before I decide to make her or not.  She looks gorgeous though!  I have never seen that one, so I am not so attached.

Here is a look at her blocks side by side with the ones I have made.  I still need to do embroidery work on all of mine.

The next ones were made by my daughter.  I have not started them yet.  Somehow I didn't get a photo of her Cinderella.  Shootdang.  She is my favorite princess of all.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE DISNEY PRINCESS?

Here is my daughter's quilt laid out with some of her castle started.

Here are my blocks in the windows on her castle.

To Do Tuesday - very very late To Do Tuesday I might add. I had my goals written down but never got a post done.  It was a super busy week with parent/teacher conferences, nails, and meetings.

Last week's goals:

1. Finish Masterpiece blocks - 7 to go.  ✔

2. Assemble Masterpiece top ✔

3. Plan borders, backing, and binding for Masterpiece ✔

4.  Some Embroidery ✔

5.  Lose 1 lb. ✔

Yes, I got them all accomplished.

This week's goals were to:

1. Make a Santa Block
2. Lose 1 lb.
3. Plan fabric for princess blocks
4. Plan fabric for nutcracker block

I am linking up with:

Cheryl's Friday Night with Friends

Jennifer's Wednesday Wait Loss

Denise's Put Your Foot Down

Cynthia's Oh Scrap