With regard to meeting all my quilting goals, 2025 was somewhat hit or miss. Mostly hit, so I'm not beating myself up over a couple of misses. All in all, it was a very successful year. Let's look how I did with each goal:
1. Work with PCQ's Community Service committee as needed.
Q1: Developed a new Irish Chain Variation pattern per their request and made two test samples.
Q2: Enlarged Irish Chain pattern per their request and made another test sample.
Q3: Stepped back from formally working with the Community Service Committee for the rest of the year.
Irish Chain Top
2. Continue making donation quilts for PCQ's charities.
Q1: 2 versions of 42" Irish Chain for pattern test. Also created original pattern for PCQ.
Q2: Urban Jungle stacked Slabs, April. Top only, 50" x 66" larger version of PCQ's Irish Chain plus pattern revisions, May. 2 versions of Scrappy Serendipity, Dancing Plus baby quilt (teaching sample), June.
Q3: Story Stacked Slabs quilted by Cherie, and Black-White-Bright Lozenges (a' la Tula Pink) quilted by Cherie, August. Wanda's Squares UFO baby quilt, August. Pink Scrappy Serendipity, September. Pinwheel Baby Quilt, September.
Q4: Red and Black Churn Dash, October. Almost Postage Stamp, November. The Scrappy Pinterest Project quilt, December.
In total, including Kevin's two tops that I quilted, I donated 13 finished quilts and two tops in 2025.
3. Teach color class to PCQ members.
Taught Group 4, six lessons, January-March 2025
Also taught Dancing Plus class
4. Completely finish at least one UFO.
Finished baby quilt of squares gifted by Wanda years ago. Such a small finish and it was already kitted up it should hardly count!
5. Continue using PCQ's long arm to improve skills. Also practice ruler work on my Bernina.
Q1: Long arm not available. Completed certification on PCQ's new Innova in March.
Q2: Quilted Urban Jungle Stacked Slabs in April. Quilted two Scrappy Serendipity quilts in May.
Q3: Quilted Cherry Jubilee, Pink Scrappy Serendipity and Red and Black Churn Dash. Helped with Edna's quilt.
Q4: Quilted Almost Postage Stamp and the Scrappy Pinterest quilt. Attempted to quilt the teal quilt but had major problems.
Did not practice ruler work on my Bernina.
6. Go on retreat at Ritter Ranch in April and July.
April: Completed the navy & pink LCT variation top and the Kaffe Flying Geese top, both gifted to friends. Finished piecing all the blocks for the Almost Postage Stamp quilt.
July: Worked on a confidential collaborative project with Cherie; got more done than anticipated, almost to the corners.
7. Plan/create/develop a new long term complicated project to work on over time.
Planned Crossroads Wheel, but it took over and became a quicker project than anticipated.
8. End the year with more stash used than acquired - net stash reduction.
Net stash reduction of 52-1/8 yards for the year.
9. Finish Kaffe Gradient project.
No, not touched.
10. Blog if topics arise but no pressure to post frequently; post monthly recap for my own reference.
Q1: 16 posts.
Q2: 11 posts
Q3: 15 posts
Q4: 18 posts
For 2026, my goals will remain the same except for #1 and #3 which are no longer applicable.
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