Monday Making: 2025 Quilting Goals

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This is my fourth year setting quilting goals, and I'm pleased to say that this approach has worked out well.  Goal setting helps me stay on track and continue moving forward with using my stash.  Although I did not meet all my 2024 goals, I was able to finish a whopping 77 quilting projects.  Let's see how I did with my goals:

        1. Indigo Way Mystery 2024 - DONE
        2. Folk Art Christmas Stars - DONE
        3. Whatnots Club Close Quarters - DONE
        4. Valentine Scrappy Hearts Runner
        5. Jacob's Sampler #2 - DONE
        6. Free To Be Wild Horse Panel - DONE
        7. Grid Girls Summer Mystery - DONE
        8. Checkmate Chess Panel (2)
        9. California Dreamin' Quilt - Top completed
        10. California Los Angeles Quilt - Top completed
        11. Aunt Netra's Floral Garden
        12. Along the Fence - DONE
        13. Black & White Night & Day - DONE
        14. Boot Scootin' Boogie - DONE
        15. Scrappity-do-dah 6" - Top completed
        16. Charming Stars Red - Top completed
        17. Sonoran Sands - DONE
        18. She Who Sews Panel #1 - DONE
        19. She Who Sews Panel #2 - DONE
        20. Only One Baby Panel - DONE
        21. Patriots' Point Panel - DONE
        22. Patriotic Panels QOV (7) - Postponed to 2025
        23. Glorious and Free Patriotic Panel - Top completed
        24. Patriotic Shaded 4-Patch - DONE
        25. Patriotic YBR - Postponed to 2025
        26. Uncle Sam Patriotic - Top completed
        27. Crown of Thorns 10" - Postponed to 2025
        28. Crown of Thorns 15" - Postponed to 2025
        29. Dutchman's Puzzle Green - Top completed
        30. Kyoto Garden Geisha Panel - Top completed
        31. Twisted Cat Tails - Top completed
        32. Harvest Time Thimbleberries - DONE
        33. Modern Maples Throw Quilt - Postponed to 2025
        34. Starry Nights QAL Pat Speth - DONE
        35. Bad to the Bone Panel - Top completed
        36. Black Cat Panel - Top completed
        37. Space Explorer Interstellar Panel - DONE
        38. Underground Railroad Sampler - Top completed
        39. One Giant Stitch - DONE
        40. Space Race Panel - Top completed
        41. Super Simple Squares Van Gogh - Top completed
        42. Frida Kahlo Forever Quilt - Postponed to 2025
        43. Frida Kahlo Moving Picture - Top completed
        44. Nightingale AGF Solids Kit - Postponed to 2025
        45. Emblem of Israel - Postponed to 2025
        46. Festival of Lights - Postponed to 2025
        47. Hanukkah Nights - Postponed to 2025
        48. Just Because Scrappy - Top completed
        49. Pinwheel Baby Quilt - Top completed
        50. Kimono Medley Quilt - Postponed to 2025
        51. Ladies in Red - Top completed
        52. RSC 2024 Pine Trees - Top completed
        53. SBC 2023 Bright Scrappy - Postponed to 2025
        54. SBC 2024 Irish Chain - Postponed to 2025
        55. Friendship Scrap Log Cabin #2 - Postponed to 2025
        56. Whatnots Club County Fair
        57. Quilts For Kids (2) - DONE
Wow!  2024 was a great, productive year.  I knew at the start of the year that my list was very ambitious and there was a slim chance of completing them all. Even so, I'm happy with what I did accomplish.  Here's a summary of results:  
        • 58 completed quilts:
          • 21 tops finished in 2024
          • 30 tops finished in 2023
          • 7 squirrels in 2024
        • 19 tops finished in 2024 but not quilted
        • 13 projects postponed to 2025
        • 4 projects removed
 I completed 47 tops in 2024 and, of those, 28 were quilted and 19 were placed in my "to be quilted" pile for 2025.  I also removed 4 projects and postponed 13 to be included in my 2025 goals.


I look forward to the new year and am motivated to be as productive in 2025 as I've been in the previous 4 years.  Here is my list of quilting goals for 2025, which again is a bit ambitious. Good thing this list is not engraved in stone!
        1. January - Old Town BH Mystery 2024
        2. January - Dodgers Sports Team Quilt (Gift)
        3. January - Favorite Things Cat Quilt (Gift)
        4. January - Birthday Quilt for Gloria (Gift)
        5. February - Frida Kahlo Forever
        6. February - Spirits of the Wind (Gift)
        7. February - Dr Seuss Cat in Hat Message Board
        8. February - QFK Hot Wheels Comfort Quilt (3)
        9. February - QFK Spiderman Panel Comfort Quilt
        10. February - Baby Quilt for Makenna (Gift)
        11. March - Ginger Jars WH
        12. March - Harry Potter Quilt (Gift)
        13. March - Crown of Thorns 10"
        14. March - Crown of Thorns 15"
        15. April - Destinations California Coastal Panel
        16. April - Destinations California Yosemite
        17. April - Freckled Whimsy Sampler #2
        18. April - Camp Sloanie #2
        19. April - Open Water White Wolf Panel
        20. May - Labyrinth Walk (Gift)
        21. May - Kimono Medley WH
        22. May - Nightingale AGF Solids Kit
        23. May - Hawaiian FQ Fancy
        24. May - Japanese Moonbeams
        25. May - City Square 4th & Main QAL
        26. June - Feathers Birds
        27. June - Northwest Washington State (Gift)
        28. June - Patriotic YBR
        29. June - Stars & Stripes Stonehenge Eagles (2)
        30. June - Stars & Stripes Stonehenge Old Glory
        31. July - 30s Pastel Pineapple
        32. July - Millennium Star Quilt
        33. July - Oh My Stars
        34. July - Spring Splash L. Burch
        35. July - Bad to the Bone GRID Girls
        36. August - Sew Many Strips
        37. August - Spider & The Fly
        38. August - When Stars Align Focus Pocus
        39. August - When Stars Align Hopscotch
        40. August - Raven Midnight Moon
        41. September - Modern Maples Throw
        42. September - Boo Crew QAL Mystery
        43. September - Stairway to Cat Heaven
        44. September - Our Lady of Guadalupe Panel 
        45. September - Wash Day Stars
        46. October - Nativity Fabric Panel by VIP
        47. October - Wilderness by AGF
        48. October - Brightly Kaffe or Blue
        49. October - Dazzling Tree - Holiday Flourish
        50. October - Star of Hope QAL
        51. November - Only You Smokey Bear
        52. November - Scrappy Weed Whacker
        53. November - Patriots' Pride Quilt
        54. November - Emblem of Israel
        55. November - Hanukkah Nights
        56. November - Festival of Lights
        57. December - Tessellation Quilt
        58. December - Market Square Betty Cake Layet
        59. December - Winter's Majesty Panel
        60. December - Woodland Glow Christmas
        61. December - The Village Slice & Dice
        62. Year-End - Friendship Scrap Log Cabin #2
        63. Year-End - SBC 2023 Bright Scrappy
        64. Year-End - SBC 2024 Double Irish Chain
        65. Year-End - SBC 2025 Blackford's Beauty
        66. Year-End - LE 2025 County Clare
        67. Year-End - Patriotic QOV Panels (7)
        68. Year-End - Quilts for Kids (6)
2024 tops to be quilted in 2025:
        1. Scrappity-do-dah 6" - UFO
        2. California Dreamin' Quilt - UFO
        3. California Los Angeles Quilt - UFO
        4. Glorious and Free Patriotic Panel - UFO
        5. Uncle Sam Patriotic - UFO
        6. Charming Stars Red - UFO
        7. Dutchman's Puzzle Green - UFO
        8. Kyoto Garden Geisha Panel - UFO
        9. Space Race Panel - UFO
        10. Bad to the Bone Drunkards Path - UFO
        11. Twisted Cat Tails - UFO
        12. Underground Railroad Sampler - UFO
        13. Black Cat Panel - UFO
        14. Super Simple Squares Van Gogh - UFO
        15. Frida Kahlo Moving Picture - UFO
        16. Just Because Scrappy - UFO
        17. Pinwheel Baby Quilt - UFO
        18. Ladies in Red - UFO
        19. RSC 2024 Pine Trees - UFO
This ambitious list makes it look like I'll be quilting day and night in 2025.  But some are fast-and-easy panel quilts, and I know a few will be postponed to 2026.  My priority is to finish the older projects, and hopefully, avoid adding squirrels😉.

I am excited about the new year and hope I can complete these projects.  Let's go!


Until next time ... Be happy and keep quilting!

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