#41 2013 in review and my Quilting Goals for 2014!!

2013

8 Finishes

Along with an exhausting list of other projects....that even amazed me when I started to write down everything I made this year!!! I've had so much fun.....

Sewing List                  

3 chalkboard table runners

2 portable chalkboards

13 place mats

7 coaster sets

2 casserole carriers

1 Christmas Stocking

3 Wallets

3 Fall table runners

2 Lunch bags

Knitting/Crocheting List

6 Cowls

1 Pair of socks

4 Pairs of mittens

3 Pairs of fingerless gloves

8 Market Bags

7 Sets of Baskets

And all of this is great, but this is the list that haunts me......My WIPs

 5 Tops done that need to be finished:

 5 Sets of QAL/BOM that need to be put together and finished:

Last Block done in April 2014

and 100 City Sampler Blocks (not all pictured)

 All this said to get to this:

Goals for 2014

Simply to complete every project I have started in 2013, and learn how to use EQ7! 

I have even put a limit on the BOM/clubs that I can join! (3) I'm there already!! lol

And I joined "A Lovely Year of Finishes" to hopefully keep me on track to complete all the WIPs!

So it looks like 2014 will be a Lovely Year for Finishes and the beginning, I hope, of my own creative side blooming!!

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Late Addition!!

What I've Been Up to:

#4 "Free" at last!!

Well I did it!!! I turned on my long arm sewing machine and left the computer off!! Yup, you heard it, free motion all the way!! lol
I have been so worried about messing up a quilt! You put so much time into piecing it, that I just refused to attempt free motion.
 So I decided to gathered all the fat quarters in browns and make a picnic blanket!
Truth be told I grabbed every fat quarter that I wondered "why did I even buy this" and made bricks and 1/2 bricks and built a "wall", with a border,

and I looked at this wall quilt and shockingly really liked it, and started to think...I can't quilt this free motion, what if I mess it up!!! So it sat for a week, till I decided to jump in!!
Day #1-- as stated on instagram...3 starts resulting in stitch ripping....thread issues and bobbin issues and threading machine issues

resulted in skipped stitches and improper tension.( I did learn something though, gently rubbing the new white eraser over the ripped threads lifts them out quite nicely!!)
So what do you do when nothing is going right... throw my hands in the air, and make cake!!!!

Banana Chocolate Chip!!

Day#2, 3

So I took a few days off and now went back at my free motion attempt, and let me say, although far from perfect...my scale isn't consistent and I forgot to baste the sides... oops

and I got lost a time or 2...

overall I have to say....I FEEL LIKE A ROCK STAR!!!!!!!

I did it, nothing super bad happened... I survived.... and I have a quilt done, beginning to end by me!!

All that's left is the binding!!

I've climbed my wall and lived to tell about it!!