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)
First row: Chocolate Marshmallow (Seabreeze Quilts), Squared Away (So Scrappy), Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter)
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.
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.