It's always an adjustment to move from the previous year to the new year. Mostly it's a mind reset, but it did take me the better part of the morning to reset my quilting tracking spreadsheet for the new year. That first meant making sure all of the quilty stuff that went on in 2024 was captured. With that all done, it made pulling all the information for my end of the year PHD report easier.
The year ended with six finishes, six projects moved to finished quilt tops, progress on the rest of the UFOs on the list and six new starts. So I broke even in terms of finishes and starts for the year, there was no net change in my UFO numbers. But I finished double the number of quilts in 2024 than I did in 2023. So I'll take that as successful year even though I didn't earn my PHD for the year.
The finishes this year ranged from some of the oldest on my UFO list to one of the new starts.
First row: A Flutter (self designed), Blue Birds (self designed), Shadow Demon (self designed)
Second row: Rhododendron (Bonnie Hunter), Diatom (Quilting Jetgirl), String Lights (Meadow Mist Designs)
The projects that became finished quilt tops also range from some of my oldest UFOs to one of this year's new starts.
There was good progress on a few other projects this year as well.
Grandmother's Choice (renamed Kate's Choice) was supposed to be my quilt as you go project. It hadn't been touched in twelve years. I finished all the blocks, but didn't do much on the learning to quilt part of the project. There's always 2025 right?
I didn't do as much on the Butterfly panel this year. One butterfly and some of the fill in foliage got finished. This is my travel project. It went on a few trips, but this year I was able to take quilts that needed to be bound on a number of trips away from home. So I still got a lot of hand work done, just not on this project.
Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) has been on the active list for the last couple of years. I make a few blocks each week. This year all the orange blocks got finished. I only need to finish 3 more of the red blocks to be done with that color. That should happen this month, then I'm left with all the cool colors to finish. The Simply Sensational Summer Scrap quilt (Kevin the Quilter) wasn't on my PHD list for 2024, but it became an active project when I needed something that would empty out my scrap bins a bit and be a good leaders and enders project. I need over 200 of the blue 4 patches and over 100 of the yellow. There's ten 4 patches in each stack, so I'm a long way off from that. So this will probably be my leaders and enders the rest of the year.
Of the six new starts for 2024, one is a finished quilt (Shadow Demon), one is a finished quilt top (Betty), the remaining 4 are in various stages of completion.
I hadn't planned on doing the guild BOM, but it was such a different design that I decided to go for it. I mostly kept up, except for December. All the blocks are made, all that's left is assembly and cutting all the sashing and border strips. This should make it to finished quilt top before the end of the first quarter this year.
Marble Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs) was going along pretty well until December. I've made some progress on the last clue but, didn't get it done before the January clue came out this morning. This morning's clue includes the instructions for final assembly and I'm excited to see how my version comes together.
Old Town kicked off in late November. A month and a half later, I've finished clue 1. Made decent progress on clue 2, but am way behind on all the other clues. There is some of each clue finished, but not enough for more than one block I'm guessing. We'll see what I can get done before Friday's clue comes out.
The last new project wasn't planned for at all. But when I agreed to take on the guild BOM this year, it meant I had to have the January block ready to show at the December guild meeting. I've made this quilt before, but with the same background for all the blocks. This time I'm going scrappy on the background as well.
