A New Year - A New Set Of Goals For 2024

2023 has come and gone and we are in a brand new year. I finished up 2023 intent on finishing up some quilt tops that had been in the works for quite a while – years, some of them. While I made progress on a number of projects toward the end of 2023, I still have work to do to join the blocks together to make tops. For whatever reason, joining blocks together is one of the bottlenecks in my process. I hope to continue to clear up the bottlenecks in 2024 and want to finish more quilts in 2024.

My intent for the end of 2023 was to finish tops so that I would have a bunch of quilts ready for the long arm so that I could start 2024 with a bang. I’m starting with more of a sputter, but as someone told me recently, any forward movement is good. I’ll take that and go with it.

The bright colored quilt is about ready to quilt. There’s another quilt – the shoe quilt – that I haven’t shared here yet because I’ve yet to get a good photograph of it so there is a little quilting to do.

Throughout the holiday period I did quite a bit of sewing, but I worked on scrap projects like the frugal blocks and the Arkansas snowflake blocks which are still far from finished tops.

One of the big goals for 2024 is to get back to making more of my own Christmas gifts in 2024. With that in mind, I’ve been putting in some time on this butterfly quilt for my sister who likes butterflies. I originally started this quilt in about 2014, so it’s definitely time to finish it. I still have about 20 blocks to make to have enough for the king-sized quilt I originally planned. It’s definitely coming along.

In 2024, I hope to continue to finish up the quilts that are already in progress, but hope to start some new ones too. I’ve been pretty fascinated by row quilts and have been collecting block patterns for row quilts for a while so I expect that row quilts will be on the agenda for 2024.

What about you? What are your quilting plans for 2024?