Year end progress

I almost forgot to track my year end progress!  I like doing it here.  I consider my blog a place for me to look back and reflect sometimes, to see what I have done over the years, get ideas, and find those (QW) Quilt-Want-To-Be.....lol.  I also share everything here, as I treat all of my readers as my accountability buddies.  It drives me to move forward in order to provide some content.

This past year started off rough, but ended off really good!  I feel that in this past year, besides spending many hours with family and friends, quilting has been a large part of my healing, and I am grateful to have this creative outlet.

Now brace yourself......you know it's not always good when you see two pages for my Works in Progress sheets and the second one is almost full.....lol.  But it's not all that bad....honest!

Just a reminder for those that are new, or just can't remember.  The pink is what was done the previous year and the blue is for what was done in the current year.  I have a darker line between the quilts that I started the year off with and the quilts that I started/added throughout the year.

So, to summarize it all, I started the year off with 24 quilts that remained from 2024.  Then in 2025, I added a total of 52 quilts to my list!!  Yes, you read that right.  Fifty-two!!  It does sound bad when I write it down, but this was an unusual year.  The second in a row.  There were time periods in this year that have a story.....a reason behind it.

At the beginning of the year, in January I started seven quilts which usually happens each year as I get excited for the new year, but then, I didn't start any quilts until later, in late April after my surgery, when I started another five quilts.  Things dwindled down after that, while I took the time to look after my health.

But when I was getting closed to the time of going back to work, I went into this nesting thing where you have to do a bunch of things to get everything in order.  Similar to when you're pregnant and just before the baby is due, you have an urge to do some deep dive cleaning and setting up the nursey.  In my case, August was when the urge hit me and I started plastering the holes in the ceiling from getting some pot lights added, which lead to priming and painting, followed by installing the baseboards, finally finishing the peninsula with my cupboards and painting all of that as well.

Then, when I had to put all the furniture back, I decided to wash everything down and go through all of the stuff.  All the cupboards, behind the doors, in the drawers, on the shelves, you name it, if I touched it I went through it!  By September when I was pretty much done, I added 26 more items to the list.  Initially it was 36, but I realized that 10 of them were not actually stuff that was started.  They were only panels, so I put those aside.  I wrote them on another list, so that I wouldn't forget about them.

September was when I did that big clear out.  Pulled everything out to evaluate it and figure out if it was staying or not.  Then in October, I added 5 more that I had missed or things that came up.  But that was it.  I was good after that!!

Then I went into panic mode!!!  YIKES!!!  Thirty-one quilts added to the list in less than two months!!  I didn't dare add another quilt to my list.  Instead I was driven to get as many as I could done, before the end of the year.  In September I finished six, October six, November six and December another six.....whoohoo!!  Twenty-four completed in four months!  Now keep in mind that many of these quilts were small items with a handful of larger ones.  

After reviewing all these numbers, what really made me feel good, was that for the whole year of 2025,  I managed to finish a total of 46 items and finished off the year with only 30 items remaining!!  That is only six more then I started the year off with.  That's not bad!  I can live with that.....lol

And there you have it!  All the progress of 2025.  I am leaning toward a very different year in 2026.  I am looking to control the amount of quilts I add to my list this year, and try really hard to make a big dent in finishing more of the quilts already on my list.  Hence the task list I've started, for my required weekly blocks.  To help me keep focused.  We'll have to see how long I can keep that going.....

Take care everyone.