It's time to be accountable ... with just over 10 minutes to spare I am reporting back on my goal to get started on 6 tasks from my first blog post. In fact, I added another task to the list! I am so thrilled that I really got a good start on this list.
- Follow up on judging program. The new coordinators for the judging program emailed me back that they are looking at the status of a bunch of people and will get back to me soon. CHECK
- Clean up and organize the sewing corner. A picture says a thousand words! What I learned is that I must have enough fabric for a dozen Christmas quilts (that is 4 per bed!). CHECK
- Sort through all my stuff and figure out what I can donate. I sorted through all the scraps and organized stuff for dog pillow donations, the next quilt show member boutique and stuff to go to Africa for women's cooperative groups. The scrap collection was rather large. I have great plans to work on scrap quilts but I never seem to get around to them. So I have decided to stop saving scraps as hard as that might be. If I don't have the energy or enthusiasm to make the scrap quilt right away no sense taking up valuable storage space in my sewing corner; better to find it a home somewhere else in Mississauga! CHECK but I really have to go through all those fat quarters, yards and project boxes and really sort out what I want to keep.
- Set learning objectives. On this one, I didn't have to work very hard. For the past couple of years I have focused on building applique skills (machine and hand). I have taken lots of classes and started blocks, read books, watched you tube videos and paid special attention to appliqued quits at shows. It is now time to figure out how I am actually going to get down to doing applique. CHECK and new goals below.
- Prioritize project list. This wasn't that hard ... the queue has been set for a few months, no make that years. Some had fixed deadlines - bind the baby quilt for Holly (it's been delivered), bind and label the baby quilt for Carolyn's shower for this Sunday (finished yesterday) and bind the wedding quilt for Jen and Grant by Thanksgiving (the wedding was in May, the binding is ready to be sewn on). As for the 2 quilts for me that I have in progress and the quilts for other important people, the priority list is as follows: finish the top for the floral quilt as soon as I get that extra 5" of fabric that I was short on, finish and quilt the winter quilt to be ready for Christmas, finish and quilt Heather's 60th birthday quilt in time for her 62 birthday in April and finish the kaleidoscope quilt for Joe by next summer. I am so lucky that he is so patient; this quilt has been in the works for over 5 years but I am already so much further along than his last quilt that took 17 years to finish! CHECK
- Report back by September 30. CHECK
The new task I set myself was to apply for a volunteer position for CQA 2016. I had hemmed and hawed about this for weeks and finally just said to myself, the worst thing that might happen is they have a dearth of creative, energetic, enthusiastic quilters applying and my skills and experiences don't hold a candle to what so many others have accomplished. Besides, there will still be lots of volunteer roles for the conference and show.
It's time for some new goals. These are going to focus on actually spending time quilting. here is my plan for skill building:
- 30 minutes or more each day piecing
- 60 minutes each week doing machine applique
- 60 minutes each week doing hand applique
- finishing exercises/projects from classes within a week (or at least setting a timetable to finish)
- sort through one box of magazines and decide what stays and what goes
Jane
Tip of the Day: I found one of those file folder dividers in a cupboard and thought it could be re-purposed to hold rulers! The rulers are organized by size, shape, purpose. The binder holds all the instructions for using the rulers.
