2025 in Review

Here are my accomplishments for 2025, followed by pictures and headings only. Details are in my past posts as indicated by a clickable completion date after each name. My own assessment of how well I met my 2025 goals is after the pictures of completions. 

2025 COMPLETIONS:

• 10 quilts
• 4 quilt shows
• 1 knitted or crocheted item 
• 22 home decor
• 5 miscellaneous items
• 16 burp cloths
• 2 classes
• 0 blog books

10 QUILTs

1) Baby Blocks Quilt (1/20/25) 29½" x 41½"

2) O's Quilt (4/9/25) 45" wide by 53" tall (small group assist)

3) Blorange (4/23/25) 38" wide by 50" tall

4) Bin There Done That Again (5/3/25) 42½" wide by 53½" tall (small group assist)

5) Ski's Tees (7/17/25) 69" wide by 83½" tall

6) Strawberries for June( 9/6/25) 31" by 31"

7) Roses and  Pansies for May( 9/11/25) 31" by 31"

8) Bees and Sunflowers for August (9/21/25) 31" by 31"

9, 10) Two construction throws (11/21/25) each ~54" wide by ~47" tall.

 

4 QUILT SHOWS

 1) Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County in Walnut Creek  (4/8/25)

2) Quilts by the Bay in Pacific Grove (5/26/25)

3) Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild Show (8/6/2025)

4) Pleasanton Quilt and Craft Show (9/25/2025)

1 KNITTED OR CROCHETED ITEM

1) Creeper Wooble (10/15/25)

22 HOME DECOR

1&2) Two Repurposed Tea Towel Pillows (4/5/25)

3) Frankenstein Pillow (10/1/25)

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9) Steampunk Halloween (10/3/25) six pillows

10, 11, & 12) Three more Frank (10/18/25) pillows

13, 14, 15, & 16)  Four Halloween Ornaments (10/20/25)

17,18)  Two Reindeer Pillows (12/6/25)

19, 20)  Two Santa Pillows (12/12/15)

21) Third Reindeer Pillow (12/19/25)

22) Third Santa Pillow 12/22/25

5 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

1) Sassy Simple Tote Bag (4/6/25)

2) Otter Tote Bag (8/8/25)

3,4 &5) Paper-pieced Cards (10/5/25)

 16 BURP CLOTHS

1) Six burp cloths for a baby girl (6/18/25)

2) Six burp cloths for a baby boy (6/19/25)

3) Four Woody and Buzz Lightyear cloths (6/20/25)

2 CLASSES

1) Class with Jacqueline de Jonge in Oklahoma (8/7/25)

2) Holiday Card Class with Tekoa at Cotton Patch (10/5/25)

Repeated for convenience, here were my 2025 goals

In 2025 I had planned to:

• 1) Work from my stash - kit and scrap management
• kits - make or give away at least one kit 👍 gave away 6 out of 10 quilts
• kits - restrict purchases to no more than number made 👍 jelly rolls are kits
• scraps - develop a system to consolidate/control 👎 no success on this one
• 2) Interface with other quilters - social 
• continue to blog 👍 blogged
• publish my blog books 👎need to find new publisher
• attend guild meetings and quilt shows👍 yes
• get together with quilting friends👍 yes
• 3) Intersperse small projects among big ones - fun, growth, satisfaction
• take a class, in person 👍 cards and paper piecing
• use opportunity to try new tools or skills 👍 new rulers / paper piecing
• reduce size of stash / amount of scraps 👎 barely holding my own