Yearly recap for 2023................

I had 30 finishes in 2023.  

My goal was to have an average of 2 finished quilts each month = 24.  One month I only had one but I caught up with 3 the next month.  When I got to December I had 4 quilts to finish before Christmas so I knew I was going to exceed my goal of 2.  I also had 2 that were just waiting for binding.  I ended up the month with 2 small colorwash wallhangings for a total of 8 which boosted the year total to 30.

I didn't have a chance of reducing the number of tops by much though because I made 29 new tops.  16 of these were finished in 2023 so they are in both collages.  The rest of the finishes were from my backlog of 42 tops waiting to be quilted.  I start this year with 41 tops begging to be finished.

I worked with fabric groups last year, 4 are Australian fabric, 2 are African fabric, 6 of Kaffe fabric, 2 of flannel, 7 are batik fabrics and 8 with a variety of quilting fabrics.  My goal was to whittle down the stash of Australian and African.  The batik ones used mostly scraps or leftovers from another quilt.  The Kaffe quilts used mostly yardage, some which was already cut in strips and squares the sizes I needed.  I'm rambling a little here trying to figure out what I'm going to be doing this year because I intended to use mostly yardage.

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So what did I do on January 1? 

I put away the leftovers from the green Rosy quilt top.

I pulled out this project.  Lots of plain colors are already cut.  I needed to cut more prints to make more blocks.

I pulled out a bag of green full width less than a quarter yard pieces and found one that didn't need pressing and made one block.

I found 3 more greens that I will use and they need pressing before I can cut any pieces from them.

I also updated the notebook with my quilt tops needing quilting with three pages of sizes.  This page had the least number on it. and at least 5 of these will be quilted by my longarm friend Robin.  The bottom half of each page has room to list all of the new tops of 2024.

Other than that I tried to clean off a table top in my studio and only got halfway through it.  Too many decisions of where to put things.  I took a photo of it but it is too embarrassing to show to you.  Just imagine a real mess, piles created in about 6 months.