New Year's Resolutions for Quilters

Time to start thinking about your New Year's resolutions! Here are some quilting related suggestions for you:

City Celebration by Elyse Marinos

1. Be honest with yourself. If you really don’t want to complete that quilt that’s been in your closet for the past five years – you no longer like it, or it no longer suits your home décor – get rid of it. Give it to a friend to finish, or donate it to your guild. And don’t feel guilty about it. Someone else will love it, and you are contributing to the good of quilting!
2. Love what you sew and eliminate "Quilt Envy" from your life.
3. Make a pact to not purchase any new fabric or patterns until you have finished one (or all) of your UFO’s. (Ed. note: Or at least think about finishing one...that counts, right?)
4. If you have multiple projects, create an assembly line. Maybe you have several quilts that need to be quilted. Rather than completing one quilt before you move onto another, quilt all of them. Same goes for the binding.
5. Get up and walk around to break up your sewing time, it will feel good. And be sure to drink plenty of water.
6. Don’t try to tackle a project all at once. If your resolution is to clean out your sewing room, do it in stages. Give yourself 15 minutes and do one portion of it – like separating all your fabrics into similar groups. Organize your thread drawer tomorrow when you have another 15 minutes.
7. Accept all sewing compliments, say thank you, and do not point out mistakes.
8. Sew and quilt how you want, not always how someone else does it!

What are some of your resolutions?

- Cassandra G.