Plans for the new year

I am sure it is true of all quilters - I spent too much money of fabric. Esp on new projects I don't really have time for considering the ones already piled up in my sewing room waiting for my attention while I am distracted, yet again, but some other project, or say teaching myself to crochet.

So in 2012 I am going to practice some self discipline in the quilting department (hoping it will spread out into other areas of my life as well). I am going to work on one quilt at a time from start to finish, unless it needs to be interrupted by a custom order. And I am not going to buy any new fabric unless absolutely necessary to complete a project (and of course for custom orders). It will be the year of the UFO (unfinished object).

I just went through the easily accessible areas of my sewing room and made a list of the quilts in varying stages of progress, most none at all, and I found 17. I haven't even gotten into my storage bins yet! Now, nobody go running to tell my husband (though if he hears about this, those have been purchased over the last few years, no our savings did not take a hit for the sake of cute fabric).

Here is a little taste of the current quilt I am working on - I bought the kit for it in the late Spring of 2010 with plans of completing it by Christmas, or at the latest the following Spring so it would be complete when my husband returned from his deployment and could go on our brand new bed. Well he has been home for 6 months now, and obviously it has a long way to go. I am almost to the point of putting the blocks together, but when you have 100 pieces of everything because you are making 25 blocks, it all takes awhile. And I am already giving myself a caveat on this quilt. We are going to pay for professional quilting, so I am going to move onto something new before it is 100% done.

I am sure I'll jump on the Work in Progress Wednesday band-wagon, and have Finished Fridays, and I guess Farmer's Wife Mondays. I'm glad recently took my sewing machine in for a tune-up, she is going to be working hard the coming year. 

Please join me and please spread the work about the Farmer's Wife Quilt-A-Long.