Here are my accomplishments for 2022, 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 2022 goals is after the pictures of completions.
2022 COMPLETIONS:
- 8 quilts
- 7 toys / cloth books
- 12 Hang Your Quilt Day participations
- 3 quilt shows + 1 shop hop
- 10 burp cloths
- 3 blog books
- 6 pillowcases
- 1 crocheted item
1) Hawaiian Anthurium (2/18/22) ~ 30" x 30"
2) Don't Fence Me In (2/27/22) 43" x 43" for Heidi
4) Quilt By Number (5/12/22) 68" x 68"
5) Hawaiian Pineapple (6/1/22) 30" x 30"
7) Spaceman (7/28/22) 56"x 56"
4) and 5) Two stuffed construction vehicles for four-year-old William in SoCal (4/29/22)
6) One stuffed doll for 15-months-old Irene in SoCal (4/29/22)
7) Mermaid doll with accessories (8/11/22)
Local Shop Hop with daughter Robin at Christmas (01/03/2023)
6) Breadfruit 'Ulu (6/12/22) 30" x 30"
7) Spaceman (7/28/22) 56"x 56"
8) X Marks the Spot (9/18/22) 68½" x 68½"
6 CHILD ITEMS (toys, pillows, books)
1), 2), and 3) Three matching pillows to Don't Fence Me In quilt (2/27/22)
10" square each, both sides shown
7) Mermaid doll with accessories (8/11/22)
10 BURP CLOTHS
2 elephant, 2 car, 2 lion, 4 giraffe, burp cloths for Ezra in OK (3/1/22)
12 HANG YOUR QUILT DAY PARTICIPATIONS
Third Saturday of January 2022 (1/15/22)
Third Saturday of February 2022 (2/19/22)
Voices in Cloth held at The Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, CA at end of March (4/28/22)
Houston Quilt Festival 2022 in November (11/19/2022)
My overall intentions were to continue to be a closet quilter by making items from fabric and kits in my closet and tools in my drawers While closeted away I would continue to interface remotely with the community. Along those lines I did accomplish these specifically cited, targeted tasks:
- Completed Moda Midnight Crossing kit and named it X Marks the Spot
- Audited my kits; did not publish a summary post because quantity too embarrassing
- Practiced Handi Quilter and Good Measure quilting templates on several quilts
- Consolidate scraps by gathering them but as yet have not sorted
- Publish three blog books
- Attended over 80% of guild meetings via Zoom
- Displayed quilts monthly for twelve months
- Crocheted a cardigan for my granddaughter
- Scraps organization could have use some more effort so I would have been able deploy them in quilts. But truthfully, I am more interested in making up kits I've bought rather than sewing scrap quilts.
- Although intending to make up more Kits this year than I purchased, I fell short of this goal. Of the eight quilts I've made in 2022, only one was from a closet kit, although two others were from stash layer cakes which can be interpreted as pseudo-kits. The other five were from stash fabrics. I did buy four more kits this year, in March/November/December. I was very restrained for the majority of 2022 until two end-of-the-year online bargains were irresistible! I will reflect this self-knowledge in my revised scrap and kit goals for 2023.
Looks like a somewhat restrained number of quilt completions this year, but lots of good side projects got done! And I love seeing the recap of all the quilts you've hung! It does look like you met most of your goals -one way or another - and let's be honest, if you met them all you'd be criticizing yourself for not being more ambitious! I think kits are better stash-busters than scraps are (if nothing else, you save time not having to curate them or work around unanticipated shortages), and I'm curious to know what end-of-year bargains you caved on!
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