2018 Quilting Goals

I realize I'm a little late to the 2018 quilting goal-setting party. I've seen posts by several of my quilty friends, but my own goals have been so to percolate, so rather than sharing them as part of a link up with others more on the ball than me, I will simply share them here.

If I were to make a sweeping generalization of my 2017 quilting goals--though I never actually made any formal goals--it would be that I aspired to be a more social quilter. And I did that quite well. From my very first mystery quilt, Bonnie Hunter's En Provence, to my Lovely Bee swarm, joining several block of the months, to entering my first contest, I was a very busy girl!

One downside of participating in all those block of the month projects is that is that now I have several quilts ready to be finished. And I'm hesitant to join too many other new things until I finish what I started.

So here I am at mid-January with a goal be a little less social. I'm not going to be completely anti-social, just less social. I enjoy making my own patterns. I enjoy having time to make something on the fly as I feel inspired. I want to make some quilts that have been on my to-do queue for a long time. I want to make more baby quilts and quilts for those who mean a lot to me and my family.

So, in no particular order, my goals for 2018 are to:

GENERAL GOALS:

• Finish 18 quilts. I made 22 last year, so this should be a problem. Especially if I finish some flimsies.
• Of those 18, I'd like at least 12 to be quilts donated to my local quilt group.
• Use my stash. Make more scrappy quilts to reduce my overflowing scrap bins.
• Quilt through my favorite quilt books.
• Write up one original pattern.

QUILTS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS:

• Piece and quilt the blocks received from my Lovely Bee swarm from 2017
• Fully participate in my 2018 swarm. My month is December so I will not complete my quilt this year.
• Make all 365 blocks as part of the 365 Block Challenge hosted by Kathryn Kerr.
• Quilt Quilting Jet Girl's Wayward Transparency quilt.
• Complete Blossom Heart Quilt's Milky Way Sampler
• Complete Pat Sloan's Grandma's Kitchen quilt.
• Complete Bonnie Hunter's On Ringo Lake quilt. 
• Complete the PEI MQG Mystery Quilt.
• Complete Meadow Mist's Magnolia mystery quilt. 
• Complete Sewhooked's Rainbow Cascade quilt.
• Send out churn blocks to my swap group
• Complete the 3 charity quilts pieced for my local quilting group (Good night Irene, Good morning Irene, Red)
• Finish Jamie & Toben's wedding quilt.
• Finish Niels' weighted blanket.
• Finish University of Akron Quilt

QUILTS ONLY MENTALLY STARTED: (pardon my vagueness, I don't generally announce who is getting a quilt).

• Amelia
• Molly
• CJ
• Molly Apron
• Landon
• Phoenix
• BELL
• Color blocks (Red is included above. Same quick pattern in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Blue, Purple, Pink, Black, Gray, Brown, and Neutrals.
• Labyrinth Walk
• Contribute 70723 Blocks
• Awesome Ocean
• Little Amsterdam
• Dutch Scraps
• Rings of Kerry BOM
• Dogs in Sweaters
• Lisa Unicorn
• American Soldier
• Bright Birch Tree
• Drunk Zebra
• Bubbles
• Storm at Sea
• Dog Daze
• Antelope Canyon
• Master Bedroom 
• Mike
• Ashley
• COWS
• Thin Blue Line
• Catan
• Hemza
• Dutch/US flag
• Snowflake
• Dutch Orange
• Oops quilt using Quilt as you go. 
• Molly Apron
• Starry Night
• Brutus
• Violet Craft Elephant

As expected, I have many more quilts in my queue than I will be able to make this year. And I have many more quilts on another list, but I decided to cap this public list at quilts that I am actively working on or have at least designed/pulled fabric/prepped to begin.