4th Quarter goals for 2016

Wrapping up the 3rd quarter I realized that I have way more projects than year remaining, so here's my lofty goal list for the end of 2016. 

These projects are all in the works 

-- 1st year clothing quilt for McKinley (11/30) -- clothes need interfacing, assembly, basting, quilting, embelishing and binding

--BOM quilt from Sewingly Yours needs basting, quilting and binding. 

--KS bonus jewel box needs to be basted, quilted and bound.

-- Weekender Bag as part of the sew a long 

-- tessellations -- still 25 blocks to be put together 

-- Moda Modern Building Blocks -- I'm going to make an abbreviated version of this one

-- Lucky 21

-- Kate Spain Christmas spectacular -- all the units are ready for sorting and assembly, this one will be big so it's more than likely heading to the long armer. 

-- I got an order for a t shirt quilt from one of my coworkers, who's retiring in early 2016 and he's planning to have a total of 3 queen sized quilts made as he prepares for a move to Oregon upon retirement -- lots of work for me and for some of my long arm friends in the upcoming 5 months. 

Waiting to be started 

-- Plus side quilt with Fig and Plum 

-- Broken Herringbone Quilt

-- Swoon

--All Squared up using Priory Square

-- Ellie Crafty Carrier 

-- Chevron and On Quilt with Botanics charm packs 

-- special Swiss Cross Quilt 

-- gift items or other swaps that might come up 

Sweet 17 goals -- plus keeping up with the rest of my bee blocks and the traveling quilts. Linking up over at quarterly finish along. 

3rd Quarter Review.

Wrapping up the 3rd quarter I like looking back and seeing what all I accomplished form my link up back in July. 

I have some ongoing items that I will be doing monthly

I have been keeping up with my monthly goals of bees, block of the month and my traveling quilt project. If you remember my Traveling quilt started out as this star block 

and so far it's evolved into this

I can hardly wait to see what it looks like in Feb 2017, when it finally comes back to me. 

Completed 

-- McKinney Guild Swap (7/26) -- complete

-- Star mini Quilt Swap (8/15) -- complete 

-- Mini Moda Love star -- Complete 

-- Scrappy Crossroads -- Complete 

These projects are all in the works 

-- 1st year clothing quilt for McKinley (11/30) -- they are cut and need interfacing and trimming before assembly

-- KS bonus jewel box from extra blocks -- it's now a quilt top

-- Weekender Bag as part of the sew a long

-- tessellations -- still 25 blocks to be put together 

-- Moda Modern Building Blocks -- I'm going to make an abbreviated version of this one

-- Lucky 21 

-- Kate Spain Christmas spectacular -- now a huge pile of HST

Waiting to be started 

-- Plus side quilt with Fig and Plum 

-- Broken Herringbone Quilt

-- Swoon

--All Squared up using Priory Square

-- Ellie Crafty Carrier 

-- Chevron and On Quilt with Botanics charm packs 

In non quilting goals I have a wedding scrapbook to put together that I will be gifting to a lovely couple -- I had plenty of supplies just sitting around waiting to be made into something or be sold so I thought this would be a great gift for them. 

So of my 18 goals plus the ongoing items, I managed to complete 4 and made progress on 3 -- not a great quarter but still something.  

September Sewing and Stashing

August brought me to the triple digits for yards used with 101 lighter this year but my sewing mojo seemed to be off track. This month I focused first on the things that I had to get accomplished, like my bee blocks. 

Rebecka is making a special quilt in honor of her sister for her guest room and requested Home Base Blocks. (-.5 yard) 

Judy is making a bright Checker quilt for charity (-.5 yard) 

It was time for round 3 of the traveling quilts -- I got Michelle's and sputtered for ideas at first and then my ideas just clicked. 

I added Swiss cross blocks to the bottom and right side (I also used the extra stars block that Catherine made.)

One of my top goals for this month was to get the tension issue fixed in my machine so that I could reattach the binding to my Scrappy crossroads quilt and move it along to the finished pile. Last month I attached it but then had to become friends with the seam ripper b/c of the issue but I'm happy to report it's ready for couch snuggling now. (-1 yd) 

This month I also started working on a baby clothes quilt.

I am continuing to work on my KS Christmas quilt as well and finally got all the HST trimmed. 

I completed the final BOM block for and started working on assembly -- I'm hoping this will be my first 4th quarter finish. 

My bonus Jewel Box blocks are now a completed top. 

I am glad that the weather is starting to turn a little cooler so that I will be more encouraged to spend time in my sewing room and can hopefully knock out a few more things in the upcoming months. I used a whopping 2 yards of fabric this month but didn't add to my stash so I'm sitting comfortably at -103 for the year so far.