Cleaning up Blog and 2017 summary

I'm not going to be quilting to the point of finishing anything, so I thought I'd clean up the blog and get rid of 2017 items and add in the 2018 items.

One Monthly Goal (OMG)
I finished something each month for this.
I like the idea that I get to pick what I want to work on at the beginning of the month.
This seems to work the best for me.

January - Quilty Fun

February - HST Quilt

March - Music Quilt

May - Gray Strip and Star quilt (EH)

April - gypsy Wife

June - Blue Star and Strip quilt (AF)

July/August - Simply Woven JMS

September - Western Sunset

October - Spring Jelly Roll

November - Door Christmas Countdown

December - Irish Star Quilt

Quilts Quilted for others in 2017

Tammy's Baby quilt

Lana Football quilt

T-shirt Quilt

QOV #10

HST Wedding Quilt

Tammy Purple Quilt

T-shirt quilt

CIL Quilt #1

CIL Quilt #2

QOV #11

QOV #12

Tammy Embroidery Quilt

Tammy orange and teal

CIL #3

CIL #4

CIL #5

QOV #13

QOV #14

CIL #6

Sandy's Halloween Quilt

QOV #15

QOV #16

QOV #17

CIL #7

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

CIL #8

Lana RWB

Wendy Memory Quilt

Tracy Fink's quilt

Jan's quilt

My Quilts that I've finished

Teal Test Quilt

Test Quilt

Patriotic Star and crumb quilt

Quilty Fun

Jo's Club Blue

FROG Quilt 

Cat Swap Blocks 

P Music Quilt

S Music Quilt

Scooby baby quilt

Gray stars & strips GS Quilt

Test Quilt

Purple Stars & Strips GS quilt

W Music Quilt

Modern Maze

ABC Building Blocks

Gypsy Wife

Blue Stars and Strips GS quilt

Heart test quilt

Tammy donation quilt

Guitar

Simply Woven

Test Quilt Squares Chasing Squares

Day Lilly

Western Sunset

Orange Fall Table Runner

Orange square fall table runner

Spring Jelly Roll

Advent Calendar

African large top

Applique Table runner

Blocks that I made in 2017

I only count them if they are in a finished object.

It doesn't have to be a quilt, but it must be done done.

January................. 111

February............... 450

March................... 30

April ..................... 20

May ...................... 223

June...................... 34

July....................... 28

August................... 72

September............. 68

October.................. 57

November ..............39

December .............203

Total....................1335

UFOs completed in 2017

I am happy with what I completed this year.

I had a balance between new starts and finishes, so that makes me happy.

I am still way over the number of UFOs anyone should have.

66% of my fabric usage was from UFO finishes.

I'll be focusing on them again this year.

January
(01) Teal Test Quilt
(02) Patriotic Star & crumb Quilt

February
(03) Quilty Fun 
(04) Baxter T-shirt Quilt
(05) Jo's Club Blue Pillow
(06) HST Wedding Quilt 
(07) HST Table Topper/Pillow 

March
(08) Headphone pouch 
(09) Embroidery - Postcard 
(10) Animal Applique Pillow
(11) Applique turtles toy 
(12) Heart Ornament
(13) Frog & flowers baby quilt 
(14) Cat Swap Blocks 

April
(15) Mr P Quilt 
(16) 2017 Band T-shirt Quilt 

May
(17) Embroidered Baby Quilt 
(18) Band pillows - 3 
(19) Esther's Stars & Stripes Gray (#125) 
(20) Mackenzie's Stars & Stripes Purple(#125) 
(21) Modern Maze
(22) ABC Building Blocks

June
(23) Ashley's's Stars & Stripes Purple(#125) 
(24) GS star pillows (#125) 
(25) Bonus hst block for quiltie fun

July
(26) Apron (not part of the UFO Challenge) 

August
(27) Purple & Brown pillow
(28) Simply Woven

September
(29) heating pad 
(30) simply woven organic mug rug
(31) Day Lily
(32) 10 minute table runner from orange fall UFO
(33) Western Sunset
(34) Orange Fall Table runner

October
(35) Christmas Sweatshirt/T-shirt
(36) Christmas HST -- candle mats/mug rugs - 4 Green, 5 red
(37) Chicken purse
(38) Chicken microwave bowl cover, Chicken coasters and mug rug

November
(39) Spring Jelly Roll

(40) Christmas Alphabet squares - advent calendar 

December

(41) Fancy Fox Mug Rug

2017 Goals were:

1. I will improve my health

2. I will become more organized

3. I will downsize

4. I will improve my expertise

5. I will decrease my fabric stash

For the full post, check this link out. https://melsquiltingblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/2017-goals.html

I talk about the summary of everything at this post https://melsquiltingblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/2018-planning-linky-party.html if you want to read lots more.

I did OK on my goals for 2017

I will continue to link up to different blogs, but my main goals for the year are:

Improve my health

Reduce my stash

Use more of my scraps

Downsize my possessions

Organize the things that are kept

Add order to my life

Tossing Challenge

Tossing 2017 items in 2017

Tossed 2609

January -- 105  

February -- 37

March --51

April --40

May -- 30

June --250

July --350

August --450

September -- 350

October -- 326

November --420

December --200

I don't think I'll keep track of what I toss this year.

My December accomplishments were:

Christmas Coasters

Thread holders

Pop It containers

Tracey Fink's red, white & black

OMG - Jan's quilt

Postcards

Get It Done #2 - Fancy Fox

4 Stockings

Stashbusters #'s game

This yahoo group is meant to help us use up our stash and finish UFOs.

They pick a small and large number each month and you can choose to work on them or not.

Making progress is a good thing.

These are the ones I did not finish.

March

#21 Car organizer

April

#47 Double Wedding Ring 

May

#4 Ann's 2009 Mystery

June

#2 APocketful of Mysteries BOM

July

#5 Ann's Mystery Star

#40 Copper & Teal

August

#56 Fall Panel 1

September

#10 Baby clothing - Boy (I'm working on this one)

#48 Dragon Fly baby quilt

October

#6 Pixie Garden

November

#2 Ashley embroidered art block

#70 Future heirlooms test block

December

#8 Ashley's FQs 

#17 Bread and Butter Flag (I'm working on these)

These are the ones I actually finished.

DONE

Jan #11 Baxter's T-shirt Quilt

Jan #83 Jo's Club Blue

#3 Animal Applique

#69 FROG quilt

#7 Turtle Toy

#12 Basic Building Blocks

#46 Day Lily

#35 Christmas Sweatshirt/T-shirt

It's a fun process and I hope to do better in 2018.

I finished 8 of 24, many that I would not have been working on if not for this challenge.

So, what UFOs are still on the list from 2017?

A Pocketful of Mysteries BOM

Ann’s Mystery Star

Applique Pixie Garden

Ashley FQs

Ashley’s Art block (use it in the t-shirt quilt)

Baby clothing quilt – boy

Baby clothing quilt –girl

Blue and beige misc

Borachio

Bow Ties

Bread & Butter Flag

Buffalo panels (used a few, but more left)

Bug Jar Quilt

Bull’s-eye – 30’s

Car Organizer

Cherry Apron

Chicken makings

Children’s book – Woodsy Wonders

Chili Powder quilt

Christmas - Nature gift

Christmas Diagonal

Christmas Panel – Winter’s Evening

Christmas panels (3)

Christmas squares (from Carol)

Christmas Stockings (1)

Christmas Tree Ornament - Crazy patchwork

Christmas tree skirt – blue

Coaster squares

Color guard pillow

Copper and teal quilt

Courthouse step panels

Cozy Days Quilt

Cozy kitten mystery blocks

Crazy heart paper pieced

Daisy Banner

Double Wedding Ring

Dragon fly baby quilt

Elvis Quilt

Embroidery blocks

Equessense T-shirt Quilt

Extra 4 patches and 9 patches

Fall border

Fall Panel

Fall Panels

Fall Quilt

Fall Square Quilt

Fall Yellow & Brown top

Fancy Fox

Feathered Star pieces

Fish Bowl

Floral & Blue square in a square

Flower Shop Quilt

Fluffy Pillow

Framed 4 patch (from Carol)

Fused

Future Heirlooms

GMFG

Gypsy Wife 2

Halloween quilt

Hawaiian appliqué

Hawaiian appliqué (quiltsmart)

Hawaiian Quilt – fabrics from vacation

Heart ornaments

Heart Struck Runner

Home in the Middle

Hooty Patooty Owl

Horse Barn

Hummingbird blocks

Imperfect Squares (29)

Jo’s Club red

Jo’s club retreat teal and brown

John Deere pillow

Landscape

Leader /Ender 2.5”, 1.5”, 1” scrappy

Liberty blocks

Madam Mim

Mahjongg

Map of Texas – Lone Star State

Midnight Snowflake Wall Hanging

Mini Scrap baskets

Mira - Red Hat purse

Misc Fall Blocks (Gypsy Rose) Green & Brown woven border

Misc panels

Miscellaneous Pieces

Modern Maze

Monkey ‘N Round

Mount Rushmore

Noel Wall Hanging

Office going away squares

Orphan blocks

Paper pieced block

Paris

Pat Sloan I love to quilt BOM

Patches for Randy’s quilt

Patriotic GMFG

Patriotic panel (Lorena gave me)

Peacock

Pink & Green Quilt Panel

Pink & Purple 9 patches

Pink & Purple QAYG for bag

Pink Horse Quilt

Pixie Garden

Pretty in Pink

Purple Triangle in a Square (leftovers from 54-40 or fight)

QBS Mystery Quilt 2006

Quilt Smart butterflies

Quilter wall hanging panel

Red and Black pinwheels odd sized (4)

Rob Peter

Row By Row

Rudolph

Sampler Society BDB 2014

Sea Quilt

Shirting Half Square Triangle or Quarter Square Triangle quilt

Shy Little Kitten panel

Spring Jelly Roll

Stars & stripes

Stegosaurus

String blocks

Sun kissed table runner #2

Sunset/ Dragon leftovers

Teal and blue BDB

Texas

Tie One On

Tie Quilt

Tinker Bell

Tree – genealogy

Triple Irish Chain

T-shirt quilt – random from Carol

T-shirt quilt - Randy’s

T-shirt Yarn

Under the Sea Quilt

Western Courthouse Steps

Whimsy Playground

Wool ornaments

Yellow and Blue Birthday Blocks

Yo yos

140 still not done, but I organized them differently and have more on the 2018 list.

Now, the blog is set up for 2018.

I'll still post, but I doubt there will be anything else finished this year.