Beautiful quilts Carole.
Happy New Year to everyone at TQS
Best Wishes Pam in Scotland

Thanks, Ritzy. I wish they were FINISHED work, but at least I'm making a little progress!

Beautiful work Carole!

This isn't a new resolution, but the continuation of a plan in progress.
1. Finish edge to edge quilting of a Carol Doak quilt completed a year or so ago. It's about 1/3 done.



2. Finish quilting, free motion on domestic machine, a mystery quilt from a newsgroup. This quilting is also about 1/3 done.



3. Finish the Bonnie Hunter Grand Illusion mystery quilt which is now in progress.



4. Don't start any new projects until these are done!!!!

Thanks for your help. The red is actually pink with purple accents and the darks are not as dark as they appear in the photo. I think I will spread the background fabric out and separate the block fabrics on top of it to get a more accurate picture. My goal again this year is not to purchase any new fabric except for what I need to finish projects that are already started or in the plans to be started soon. That background fabric was an exception. I purchased an extra yard because cream batiks are hard to find. Robin, it sounds like you've added too many things to your plate since retiring. It's all a matter of priorities. What's hard is we want everything to be a priority. Happy New Year to all!

Annis, I would consider taking out 10, 13, and 16 and see how that flows. 6 and 15 look very similar on my screen, so leave in whichever one of those you love the most. I like the pattern on 15. Just a thought!

New Year Resolution

Robin, may I suggest your resolution be not starting any new projects?

I usually try to avoid New Year's resolutions because I only feel badly when I break them. But yesterday, I made a list of all my projects in the works: I have 27 in some stage of design (ranging from almost ready to start to just an idea), 15 being appliquéd (can you tell I get distracted by new projects easily?), 5 being pieced, 1 being put together, 3 being quilted or ready to quilt, and 1 that needs the binding fixed (today, I hope!). That's a lot! And in looking through my list, I really do want to finish all these, and I want to work on all of them NOW . Obviously not possible, so now I'm trying to prioritize, which isn't working so well. And then there are the charity quilts I want to work on. I've got a few of those tops here waiting for quilting (not part of my list). The actually quilting part is my weakness, and I really do want to improve on that, but I've never been very patient with practice pieces, so I'm planning to use the charity quilts for that. In our local group, we provide quilts to the police department for when they have to take kids out of their homes. This spring, I'll be traveling a lot—at least a week in every month through April—and my sewing machine really needs servicing, which means I'll be without it for a couple of weeks, sigh. Well, I guess I'd better log off and go quilt, hmmm? Happy New Year, everyone! May 2015 be filled with happy and quilty things for us all!

Wendy's idea suits me because I would remove middle values. Maybe I'd leave the red and look for another middle value to toss. You'll be the best judge because you can look at them in reality/daylight. Best wishes for lots of enjoyment while you work.

Lovely fabrics. If I had to leave some out iI'd take out I'd take out 3,4,5 and 6. Worked out technically by putting a finger over the picture

I'm getting ready to start my first project of the new year. This was put on my list a few days ago, although I have been wanting to do it for awhile, but didn't know what colors to use until last week. This one is for a friend. Starting from the top is the outer border, inner border, sashing and cornerstones (fussy cut leaves), block fabrics, and background. All of the fabrics were in my stash except the outer border and background. I will be making house blocks using 1 block fabric with the background fabric. There will be 12 blocks and I have 16 fabrics. Which ones would you not use, counting from the left 1 thru 16? I could make 4 extra blocks before deciding but that would take extra time.

I will start with cleaning my studio so when I finally feel the urge to be creative--I will have the space to begin.

I am so happy to hear I am not the only one with numerous UFOs. I had planned to finish a quilt for each of my children for Christmas. I have finished one. Two are ready to be quilted. The other two are not started yet. This is a goal for next Christmas. I also have 3 large quilt tops to be quilted, 2 baby quilts, and many partially finished projects. So far all the fabric I need to buy is for the background on my Christmas houses. If I stick to the plans, I should be able to finish all of this with out additional fabric purchases.
Other then finishing projects, I hope to greatly improve on my longarm quilting. I am also planning to rearranging my sewing space to make it more efficient and hopefully make it easier to keep organized. It all sounds like a huge amount of work, but if I take it one project at a time I think I will have some success. Good luck to us all in the new year.