A New Year Means New Goals

Happy belated New Year all! Starting 2018 on the blog 3 weeks late. Awesome.

I usually like to start the year with a look back at the previous year. 2017 -- well, not a very productive year for me on the quilting front. Only 12 posts on the blog. I used to do 12 blog posts a month! I did finish a few quilts, but work and kids took over. And my quilting mojo disappeared sometime around May. The passion and a lot of ideas are still there, but the motivation and energy are not.

I would like that to change for 2018. I want to reinstate my 20 minutes a day routine. Hopefully that's doable. Since a lot of my motivation comes from goal-setting, here are my quilty goals for 2018:

• Get quilting for 20 minutes a day
• Finish my BeeSewcial quilts
• Reduce my stash -- my sewing space is feeling too cluttered these days
• Finish at least one project a month
• See if I can finish something in time to submit to the National Juried Show at Quilt Canada. This one is not looking too promising. 

This is what I'm working on right now:

The concepts I'm trying to explore with this one:

• Improv styles that transition from order to disorder/chaos
• Maxi colour to neutral
• Value progression through the neutrals
• Matchstick quilting with grey and rainbow thread

Too much for one little quilt? We'll see.