First Quarter Review

Yvonne, also known as Quilting Jetgirl, posted a few days ago a review of her 2023 goals. She challenged us to take a look, and I think that was a good idea. I am ready to see where I am and whether progress has been made or not.

Quarter 1 Review

2023 Goals

You can see the original post and goals here. It wasn’t an extensive list, but I am pretty pleased with my progress as I look at it.

Stash in Medford

Use up my stash and keep a stash in and out count:

  • I am keeping a list of this, and right now am definitely using the stash!
  • I am down over 6 yards!

Participate in 6 blog hops or QALs/SALs:
I participated in 3 blog hops already! You can see the logos up here.

Publish 3 patterns:
No progress. I just haven’t been creating my own work, need to push myself to do a little more here. I think some of it is due to the pile-up of projects from breaking my ankle last year!

New website theme:
I am looking at a few and testing one out. I also need to move my website and my mailing list has required some work. I think there will be more progress on this in Quarter 2.

Conquer some of the Projects In Waiting:
I am pleased to report that 4 were completed, 12 remain. This looks to be right on target.

  • Villa Rosa/ Orphan Quilter/Tricia Maloney Hop
  • Blue Blog Hop
  • Stay At Home Round Robbin
  • Winter Block quilt ( a blog post on this will post Thursday).

Coming Up on My Blog

This week I am hosting TGIFF, somewhere last week I checked my calendar and realized I was a week ahead of myself. I will begin the behind the scenes work on my Fab Farm Sew Along and continue to sew on the Diatom Block of the month. I also will have a project or two to prep for an upcoming retreat. I started cutting some of it Saturday, realized I need a different background than the one I planned, so there is some fabric sourcing to be done, too.

Winter Twist/TGIFF on 3/30-4/1
Diatom Row 2 
Fixing a T-Shirt Quilt
Fab Farm SAL Begins (4/17)

Linking Up 

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Fabric Stash 

My stash is getting smaller!
Fabric in this month: 3.5
Fabric out this month: 8.5
Fabric in this year: 20.25
Fabric out this year: 27.00
NET Fabric: -6.75 yards!

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My Favorite Tools

Pins with Numbers & Arrows
Annies Soft and Stable Foam Stabilizer
By Annie’s Clear Vinyl
Heat N Bond Iron On Vinyl
Omni Thread, Purplelicious
Aurifil 50 weight thread
Hobbs Tuscanny Wool Batting
Freezer Paper Sheets
Binding Sasher
Nexcare Clear Skin Tape
Cluck Cluck Sew Tape
Simple Folded Corners Ruler
Free Motion Quilting Workbook
Shape by Shape Collection 2
Shape by Shape
DayLight Wafer 1 Light Box
Freezer paper
Siteground Web Hosting
Dream Cotton Batting
Sidekick Ruler
Hex N More Ruler
4″ Circular Plastic Needlepoint
Awesome Ocean Pattern
Schmetz NonStick Needle
Sulky Totally Stable
Barn Quilt by Sherry Shish
PrintNFuse
Applique Pressing Sheet
Mary Ellen’s Best Press Starch
Clover Bias Tape Maker 12mm
Woven Diamonds Pattern
Hobbs Premium 80/20 Batting
Woven Star Pattern
Wefty Needle
Quilt Hanger
Fat Quarter Shop
Accuquilts
Sizzix
Westalee Sampler Template Set
Mettler 60 wt. Cotton Embroidery Thread
Sandboard for Hand Sewing/Appliqué
Clover Needle Threader
Sewline Black and White Pencil
Sewline Grey Pencil
Backyard Birds
Wing Clipper
Quilt Pounce
Hobbs Thermore Batting
Clover Chaco Liner – silver
Turnabout Patchwork by Terese Mairal Barreau
Sewline Glue Pen
Fusible 1″ Hexagon Paper
Fusible Appliqué Paper
Sizzix 3 1/2″ half square triangle
Electric Quilt 8
Sizzix Big Shot
Quilter’s Dream Select Batting
Quilt in A Day Log Cabin
Judy Martin Log Cabin
Emiko Toda Loeb
3M Command Strip Clothespins
Paper Templates for Lucy Boston
Lucy Boston Templates,MPP
Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Cross
Clover Wonder Clips
Thread magic
Clearly Perfect Angles
Sizzix Big Shot Plus
Spritzer
Slotted Triangle Trimmer