Enough Already!

I keep thinking about my New Year's Resolution, enough already!  Right?  Keep it simple.  One of my biggest "problems" are backings and quilting my tops.  So I'm going to make a backing a month for one of my tops.  The goal is to get these tops closer to the finish line.  So I promise, this is my last post on New Year's Resolutions.  Thanks for reading as I "think out loud" about what I want to do.

I have been working on "Walk In The Park" by V and Co.  

I have the big pink flowers completed and am working on the leaves.  I'm also in the process of bagging up the small flower blocks.  Lots of little pieces for that block.  I've been working on this as a leader/ender as I work on Grassy Creek Mystery Quilt.  The background in the kit I bought has a whitish/gray grunge, so it's a little different.

 

Fantasy

 I decided my method of trying to organize my UFOs was a fantasy!  I don't really want to create more paperwork or whatever in my sewing room.  So I'm not doing the notebook.  I will continue to use my app, "Quiltful" as my tracking device.

I finished my nine patches and the flying geese blocks for Grassy Creek Mystery.  Still cutting the red rectangles.  Need to find more reds in my sewing room in order to get enough cut.

.And did you see?  I guessed correctly, gray string blocks! A decision will be made soon as to how I will handle this part.

Tweaking My Resolution

 I decided on tweaking my resolution for 2021.  I have a few UFOs in the basement, but most are located in my quilting room.  So I'm starting in the quilting room and will move to the basement when I have completed my sewing room.  But for now, just documenting the quilting room.

We had a big snow yesterday so I've been out shoveling the driveway and sidewalk while my husband does our lane.  Such a pretty morning today!  It sparkles so, but I couldn't catch that with my phone.

Progress is being made on my nine patches for Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt. 

Hope I can get all of this clue completed before Friday, but I'm not going to stress if it doesn't happen.

A New Year

It's almost the New Year and I'm thinking about Quilting Resolutions for 2021.  I have been doing the Dirty Dozen for a couple of years now and I will continue to do this.  I've also participated in American Patchwork and Quilting's UFO challenge.  And a UFO challenge through Guild.

One thing I really like at American Patchwork and Quilting is this tracker for UFOs.  Check it out here.   I added an app called Quiltful to my phone to help me have measurements when I'm shop hopping.  Especially when I see a deal on backing fabric. But something about the tracker is calling to me.

I don't know exactly how many UFOs I have.  (And do I really want to know? EEK!)  I decided I am going to start organizing them.  Not the tops, but the projects I have started but aren't finished to top status.  And I'm going to use the paper tracking form from American Patchwork and Quilting.  My goal is to add one a day until I get them listed and in a notebook.

I have so many ideas of ways I can get these projects completed.  I can do a block a day, I can do Leader/Enders, I can piece backings (one a month), I can quilt an hour (or whatever amount of time) a day.  

But this last year of being confined at home so much has taught me, slow and steady wins the race.  Just keep working on them!  What plans or ideas to do you have for your projects?