End of Year 2025

 As we get ready to start the new year, we tend to analyze our situations.  

I keep a spreadsheet that I got from a blog years ago, and I'm sorry, I don't remember where.  

There are 57 projects on my list.  Some are patterns that I want to make, some are kits purchased at various places (Paducah, Houston, etc), and some are kits that I have created.

I have 17 quilts that need to be quilted including 3 customer quilts.  One of them is on the frame now and I hope to have it completed soon.  These are included in the spreadsheet.

My sewing studio is atrocious right now and I spent some time today putting away fabric scraps leftover from two scrappy quilts that are real close to being flimsys.

Here are some before pictures of my studio.  I think I need HELP!!!

Sewing space.  And this was AFTER I put away a bunch of scraps.

Second sewing space with trash and scraps that need processing.

UPDATE!!! After day 2 of the final countdown, the clothes basket is EMPTY

Can't even get to the sit-down.

Cutting table/side table for the longarm.

General clutter.

More general clutter.  Notice the overflowing trash.

I plan to participate in Karen Brown's Declutter Challenge starting in January.  I've tried it before and not completed it.  Maybe this will be the year.

I also follow Jenny at Prairie Moon Quilts.  She helps with organization year-round but she will have the final countdown the last 3 days of the year.

Wish me luck!!

Until next time, wishing you more stitchin time than I will have.

Rose

I may make it yet!

 The design wall looks only slightly different than the last post, but different it is.  Midnight at the Oasis is getting close to a finished top.

Finally finished the handwork and all of the blocks for the final border are complete.  But because of the lack of contrast in so many of the final blocks I will need to take it to stitchin and use the full design wall to make sure those low contrast blocks get scattered about.  

I've been using the final border for the other Jen Kingwell (Pick-a-Petal) as leader/enders.  Sixty-eight of them.

And once again, the ten-foot brick applique wall is in effect on this quilt also.  The log cabin blocks call for applique.

Do I bite the proverbial bullet? or do I machine applique them?  Time will tell.

Except for the background in the center and appliqued border of Midnight at the Oasis, these two quilts are made entirely from scraps.  And what a great feeling that is.

Until next time, I'm wishing you more stitchin time than I will have.

Rose

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Progress

 This one feels like it is taking forever...

I started in January of 2024. 

I am obsessed with Jen Kingwell quilts because of the scrappiness.  This is one of the two of her quilts that I have going right now.  But the applique is like a ten-foot brick wall.  I don't enjoy handwork.  So there border number one sat while I continued on to borders two and three.  Now most of the handwork is done but there is still more.  Progress, right?

I am currently working on the final border while I SLOWLY finish the applique border.  I am determined to complete this top this year.  Wish me luck.

Wishing you more stitchin time than I will have.

Rose

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