2025 Quilting Goals

Quilting is my hobby but every year I struggle with writing goals, expending time I could be quilting.  Not this year. I am repeating goals from last year, but viewing them as 2025 quilting suggestions instead of goals.

In 2025 I plan to:

• 1) Work from my stash - kit and scrap management
• kits - make or give away at least one kit
• kits - restrict purchases to no more than the number I make or give away
• scraps - develop a system to consolidate and control
• 2) Interface with other quilters - social 
• continue to blog and publish my blog books
• attend guild meetings and quilt shows
• get together with quilting friends
• 3) Intersperse small projects among big ones - fun, growth, satisfaction
• perhaps take a class, in person or online (fun)
• use opportunity to try new tools or skills on reduced scale (growth)
• reduce size of stash and amount of scraps (satisfaction)

In browsing quilting tips online, I found this rule of three to be a reasonable, non-specific suggestion. (per Siobhan Fitzpatrick, designer of Radiate)

Pick three projects that will help guide your work throughout the year. One should be a WIP (Work In Progress)—something you didn’t get a chance to finish this year but want to get done. Another should be a project you have the supplies for but never started (maybe that Halloween quilt that just went by the wayside). The final one should be a project that uses a new technique you really want to try (and this can be a small project—since it is a learning project). This way, you set yourself up to finish a project, make something you already know you want to make, and learn a new technique/skill. This will help set a positive, balanced tone for the year.