Well, I clearly didn’t get to posting a great deal this year 🙁 Let’s see if I can do better in the new year 🙂

I have been working on a bunch of quilts this year and maybe I’ll try to get around to posting some pictures to show my progress. But I do have some new goals for this year.

• Sew one charity quilt every month in an attempt to use some of my fabric
• Go through all my fabric and get rid of any that I’m never going to use
• Finally take some of the stuff from the last Destash and finally post it on Etsy. I’m going to try to dedicate an hour a day at the start of the year to this task

Well, since getting home from retreat I’ve been making even more progress on my Elefant Abstraction quilt! And I found a really good way to organize my work! I’m hoping this is preparing me for my Legit Kits project that I have on the to do list.

So, I found an Elfa file drawer at a garage sale and am using that to organize. I modified the cart a little to have the folders turn sideway so I can see them better. Then I’ve put each fabric for the quilt in a plastic pocket in the hanging folder. I’ve attached a little post-it note to each folder to say what the color is and what its symbols is and then I’m trying something a little different.

Using an extra copy of the pattern that I have; I’m finding all the pieces in 10 increment groups. So, all the pieces 1-10, then all the pieces 11-20. Then I’m cutting the pattern pieces apart and sorting them by the color they are cut from. Then I’m laying out each color of fabric that I need and cutting out around each pattern piece. Then I put the pieces and the fabric (now cut pretty close to the right size) back together. All the pieces for 1 together, all the pieces for 2 together, and so forth. I’m using these foam board that I made with felt on the top. Handily, I have 10 boards, so one for each section. Then I take the boards to the sewing machine and putting them together. And then I repeat the process.

I’m trying to be really careful about cutting my fabric. Because the kit is old, the new version of the solids are a close match, but not exact. So, I don’t want to run out of fabric. Like that could ever happen 🙂

With this technique, I’ve put together all of the pieces from 1-40 and am on the 50’s right now. And I only have to go through 96.

Well, I was able to make a bunch of progress this past week! I finished several bindings My Kinda of Town, The Little Village Quilt Along, and Snowflake. I also finished the Katz Basic bag. I just need to have DH cut a plexiglass bottom for it and sew up the inside seam. And I also worked on several of the panels for the Tiny Town quilt. I’m trying to get that ready to take with me on a trip.

I also need to figure out where to take good pictures of my projects. I can’t quite figure out where I have enough space to hang the completed quilts and a good space to lay out pieces. Next week 🙂

Well, I was able to make a little progress this week. I was able to cut and sew on the binding on My Kind of Town. After much back and forth, I finally settled on this grey and white fabric on the bias. I hope it looks a little like rain?

Now I just have to hand sew it on the back 🙂

Another positive today, is that I didn’t buy some fabric I didn’t need for a block exchange. I’m always so excited to work on those types of things, but I asked myself if I really wanted to work on the sew along more than on the projects on my list. And the answer was no, so I was able to leave the fabric behind. Yeah me!

I created this site to help keep me accountable for all the quilting I would like to complete. And as a way to make sure I don’t purchase more stuff that I don’t have time to complete. I’m trying to make sure that for every new thing I look at, I ask myself “is this something I would rather work on than all the other projects I already have?”

And as you can see from the NESTY/UFO page, I have a lot of sewing ahead 🙂  I can’t believe how many projects I have in my head!  The list is over 140 and growing!  Now in my defense about 20 of the projects are already tops, but need to be quilted.

I’m hoping I can have those quilting while I’m working on other stuff.

What am I going to do with all these quilts!

P.S. And I have to stop updating the website and just get going!