I love a Bright and Shiney New Year! HELLO 2017 we are going to be very good friends!
Here at I Love to Make Quilts I want to kick off Jan 1 with a BANG .. a Quilty Prize worthy type bang…
I will be doing more about the fun things planned for 2017, but let me give you a short spin around the block today
- Each Wednesday will be a NEW free quilt block. My first Project is the 182 Day Solstice Challenge
- We are also continuing Moda’s Be My Neighbor Sew Along
- I also have my Favorite Things page where you can get links to my supplies that I use
- On either Fri/Sat or Sun will be a SECOND post each week and it might be a tutorial, a fun find, a free pattern or something like today, a giveaway!
- So you can find things there is at TOP Nav bar with the BIG Topic Categories and on the RIGHT side bar are more detailed Topic Categories
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Jan 1, 2017… the first page of our new year is so FULL of possibilities! My personal tradition is to be SURE I do a few minutes of ALL the things I want to do MORE of this year. For me that is…
- Sew sew sew!!! did I mention sew?
- Take a walk, I want to walk more
- Take a few minutes to be relaxed, maybe read, look at a book, or just listen to some music. Take some time to let my mine think. I tend to be a go-go-go person and have to force myself to slow down.
The Quilt behind my Question is my new ‘Pinwheel Park’ Layer cake pattern + one fabric pattern, hope you make one!
Now for the fun!!!
What will you do today to kick off 2017?
Answer in the comments below by Jan 4 at 6pm EST and you could win this prize
Winner is Kathy B who said “My 2017 goals are to shine my sink which I am hopeful will spread thru out the house. I’m going to tame my sewing areas so I can get more done. I’m going to quilt more of my quilt tops. I’m going to cut projects for each machine I have. These will include nursing home quilts, baby quilts, pet quilts and some for family. I’m going to cut a simple quilt to send to my sewing granddaughter to put together. I am thinking of rejoining the church lady quilting bunch every other Thursday. I am going to get back into the habit of walking the pets.”
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Today I’m continuing with cleaning and rearranging my sewing room, which will hopefully be done by the end of tomorrow. Then I can get back to sewing in a clean room! =)
Every New Year’s Day for the last 30 years we watch football, so I’m English Paper Piecing today. Hand sewing is great for watching football with my family.
Now that Christmas is cleaned up,and behind us. I have started the Solistice challenge.
Being a fairly new quilted I am excited about learning lots of new things with this
Challenge. Happy New Year Pat
I will start my day being grateful for the day. Then I will drink my morning lemon water, which I had been forgetting towards the end of 2016. Today I plan to continue setting up my quilting studio in my garage so I can continue on with my quilting projects in a new space, but first I am checking my email and taking care of business.
Sewing, going to Michaels for some storage boxes for the Solstice project & Dear Jane EPP project, some reading, dinner at my brother’s house and then more sewing.
Tomorrow will be more of the same since I don’t have to go back to work until Tuesday!!
I plan on checking out your other sew slings, actually sew some, and put together a portable ironing board table.
I plan on getting my son and daughter-in-loved wedding memory quilt done. They will be married
3 years in Sept. I’m running a little behind on making it!
I am going to take down my Christmas decorations and clean house, and then I will spend the rest of the day relaxing! Jadahlgr at Yahoo dot Com
I plan on sewing my “day & night block together, reading a little of my latest book ” The Ballroom” and then go to my daughter and son-in-law’ s for a New Year’s dinner with our whole family.
I’m finally getting better on my APQS Millie longarm so I plan to catch up on quilting my tops. And, I want to keep pace with them so I won’t have a backlog.
And, of course, sew, sew, sew!
I plan on organizing some fabric and starting the block of the month. I know, I’m behind but I can catch up and plan on that today. Other than than, I plan to drink coffee and unwind!
It’s my grandson’s 8th birthday, so a quick trip out to give him his present and Superhero quilt kicked off my 2017. I have spent the rest of the day finishing the binding on a quilt to send to a friend in Cornwall and have done the first 26 pieced half hexies for the Jaybirds Science Fair quilt for my son.
I plan to work on my Baltimore album quilt…only one block left to appliqué! Winter storm advisory so it will be a good day to stay home and do some creating!
LOL! I am wrapping Christmas presents for our family Christmas next Saturday! The first opportunity to get everyone together! However, got some sewing time in yesterday and I am off tomorrow and will do some more then. Goal for 2017 is to organize my stash!
I’m getting my UFO’s in order based on priority and starting the Solstice blocks. I plan on doing two sets, one will be blue/white and the others will be red/white.
I am working on my UFO Challenge. Today I finish month 4 Of Evening Sky by Cheryl Malkowski. I plan to finish all the pieces this month and put the quilt together in February. I have heard that spending January 1 doing something you love insures that you will spend the entire year doing something you love. Sew, sew, sew!
I am knitting and turning the computer OFF so I have time to work in my sewing room—I want to do some decluttering and actual SEWING. I am going to step out of my comfort zone and try your Solstice sew-along.
what else but quilt??? I have two unfinished quilts that are ready to be quilting and and I hand quilt so busy I must get. My husband passes away 3 months ago so things have been on hold. So now starting a new year I must keep busy
I am organizing my sewing room, then hopefully some sewing will take place. Also, a long walk with the dog sounds good:-)
I am going to get back into quilting. My mojo has been sleeping for too many years – finding Pat’s website was the spark I needed. I am loving the Solstice weekly challenge – something to look forward to every week. Thank’s Pat. Happy New Year to all the encouraging, supportive people on this stitching journey.
I finished my second solitice block, now on to pillow cases!
Walk several times a week and finish the summer in the park quilt by sewing for at least 30 minutes every day.
off to snowshoe for a bit then back home to work on what else some quilting…. but also some sorting of the sewing room as the holidaze always leave it in a shambles as I work like crazy to get from fall craft show mode to done with gifts … cleaning it up is a gift to me but helps sort and get the order going for projects for the new year… off we go to play in the snow….
I will be brushing up on my ruler quilting skills
Sew something…anything….probably work on a UFO.
Quilt on a leftover UFO from 2016 and plan out my quilt week in my planner1
I plan to work on Bonnie Hunter’s Mystery today since the big reveal came out this morning. Can’t wait until it is done!
Take a nap. Then finish a sweater for my granddaughter. Then watch the packers!!!!
A little quilting and a little organizing my sewing room
It’s already past 5pm on New Year Day and I’ve spent some time sewing the letter blocks for my ‘2017 Word’, listened to the footie while reading my favorite blogs and enjoyed a wonderful ‘prepared for me by himself’ roast beef dinner. Definitely the way Sunday’s should be enjoyed 🙂
I will be getting back to making a quilt for my bed. Retiring in the next month and take care of my sister who has cancer.
Making baby blanket out some of the flannel I have to decide what to use
I plan to sew, read, and organize my sewing room ( it’s a process), and turn on netflix.
Happy 2017! I am sewing as I read this( just took a small break). I am working on making these wonderful microwave bowl cozy for my family. I love them. I used one this morning to microwave my Oatmeal. Perfect! Woohoo!🎉🎉🎉. #24 on my UFO Challenge Sheet!
I am organizing my computer files as I work from home and the new year means archiving. I will put away the holiday decorations. I will sew something today. Most of all I will relax and enjoy while doesn’t them all. I need to find the beauty or ‘goodness’ in all of the activities I do rather than dreading the ones I am not excited about.
I’m cutting the binding for my quilt I just quilted yesterday, I want to have it read to be displayed for Raffle ticket sales by the 12th of January.
I’m also working on my River Forest BOM blocks, I saved up 6 months worth so that I could jump right in and really get the project moving.
I’m anxiously awaiting the 3rd block of the Solstice Quilt.
Here’s to an incredible New Year!
Today a little sewing and some football watching with family. I plan to get out more and spend time with friends and family, Finish at least 2 UFO’s and make a quilt for at least one grandchild. (5) Happy New Year to you and yours.
Planning to start the New Year by organizing my sewing supplies. Also plan to take a walk to start my Healthier new year. After that, plan to read, that is my favorite hobby after sewing.
I plan to finish a quilt top for my nephews gift for Christmas 2017 and take care of a sick husband.
Catch up on quilt clubs boms and do some reading.
2016 was a year if adjustment for me. I retired in February after working as a nurse for 43 years. During all those years, I bought fabric and needle crafts for “retirement days”. My plan for 2017 is to get all of my fabric organized and put to good use. I also inherited many sewing items from my grandmother years ago and need to go through all of them. I have a grandmother’s flower garden quilt to finish that I can remember my mother working on when she took me to the local wading pool. So I guess my whole plan for 2017 is to get organized and to get “get things done”! Oh, and to enjoy retirement!!!!!
I have a couple different projects that I will be piecing today. One a tumbling block quilt for my grandson, and the other a quilt with lots of flying geese (new to me) for a friend.
Happy New Year..Going to FINISH a piece of embroidery of a January Angel. Have had the pattern for years and it is my first try with the sticky fabri solvy. Thanks to a headcold, I have had great excuse to work on this!
I am planning to finish my scrapbook pages for 2016 – photos about the growing up of my grandson who is now 2 years old.
I will also be sewing on Clue #4 for En Provence by Bonnie Hunter.
🙂 Linda
I’m going to make the newest bonus block for Splendid Sampler, then put the border on a UFO I started in 2015.
Happy New Year!
I plan to pull the fabrics for the Solstice Challenge from my stash today. I want to get the two blocks done before Wednesday.
Finished packing Christmas Away, and have a brisket slow cooking. Time to sew a couple Solstice Blocks and perhaps a class sample for my moderns in January! Thank you for Sharing your time and talent with us ! Happy New Year !
I am cooking dinner for my family, playing games afterwards…and getting them to move my cutting table and Sweet Sixteen to the family room in preparation for a Sew-in next weekend.
Happy New Year, Pat and Greg!
I am organizing my sewing room as I moved we’ve been moving furniture around in my house. When that is done I will work on a Polaroid block swap and the Solstice blocks!
Today sew sew sew, cut the lawn, cook salmon for dinner, oh yes did I say sew!? Happy New Year everyone!