January Month End

Time for a quick update on January's goals and progress....

The journal layout...

1 My main focus goal for this month was to finish This Little Piggy.  Finish quilting.  Bind... label and blog.  Yay... big tick for this one!

2 Second goal was to finish piecing Bursting Star.  Also done!

3 was to baste Dylan's Hawthorn Quilt.  Done!  Although this horrendous hot weather was not helpful!

4 My Butterfly Patch BOM goal involved finishing the last block and assembling the remaining pieces.  I added to the goal and finished the border.  Bonus!

5 Ultimate beginner quilt... Finish row 1... after much angst this finally was completed.

Then I had some additional tasks...
A  Complete first block on the Happy Cloud Sampler scrap edition

 B Finish section one of Line Dried

I ahmed and ahhed about whether to start the Summer Sampler 2017 and finally pulled the following from stash.  I'm pretty much following the colours suggested although with a bit of leeway depending on how the stash fabrics fitted together.

And the first block!  This is actually block 9 of the sampler but is the central block.  I wanted to see how the fabrics were going to work together in this focal spot.

I also had a couple of projects that didn't have goals, but I wanted to remain on my agenda.

Sweet Escape... I managed to complete enough blocks for the first quarter and have just started sewing these together.

And finally my scrap Transire Quilt... little 2" cut scrappy plus block/nine patches.  I have actually made a few more since this photo was taken.  I've worked out the best way of fitting this project in is to ensure I lay out at least one block at the start of the sewing session and use it as a leader ender as necessary.  I don't have a huge collection of squares cut out, so I am just adding a bit of cutting time each session to cut a block or two.  The colours are just meandering as my scrap collection changes...

And that's January's progress.  As I work casually throughout this month, I usually start heaps more projects than i can carry on with through out the year.  We will have to see how successful this year turns out.  I have way too many projects needing quilting which is often a long slow process for me.  My overall goal for the year is to get a mix of old and new projects finished... both just tops finished and completely finished... although i am not going to put a quantity on that.  January's success has been a confidence builder that i might just get there!