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Thursday, December 28, 2017

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.







1 comment:

  1. These are VERY impressive lists! You have a lot of irons in the fire, and finished or made progress on soooo many things! I'm impressed :)

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