So! End of year repoprt for 2023!!! My goodness how fab has fettling and furtling been this year? Pretty awesome if you ask me! I dont miss a lot about work but I do miss being organised having frameworks to feed into, ticking things off lists so it is lovely to have this to help me account for my crafting in my retirement!
Having this list has really helped focus me stop me from always jumping to something new and it keeps me accountable. I missed the finish along a lot but this is even better I think 😊
Lessons learned:
Be more picky about choosing SALs there were a couple this year which were OK but just that no more. The blocks were all predictable and the settings as well. I have enough other lovely things on the list to be getting on with 😊.
Same goes for embroidery. Be more choosy there too. I don't really join in the social side of SALs so there has to be something in the making of it to justify the time spent.
Use up scraps .... blimey they are getting out of control again!
So what has been achieved in the last half of 2023?
Ticked off in 2nd half 2023
OK thats quite a lot I think, below is what was ticked off in the first half of 2023
Ticked off in 1st half 2023
Bountiful - February- September first Friday of every month removed feb 2023 pattern not to my liking.
All in all I think a great start with my first full year of retirement!!! Especially if you compare with 2022, which I still think was none too shabby!
Ticked off in 1st half 2022
Ticked off in 2nd half 2022
So what's in order for 2024? I've updated the list below on the main fettling page. One main goal is to find a way to keep Blossom Jane on the radar, she sort of fell off, the individual blocks don't take that long to do, I would ideally love to make 3 or 4 a month just to keep it ticking over, let's see.
Blossom Jane
Bubbles in speckled fabric (almost done)
Bargello Angels wings with Tula (serenity pattern)
Moda Blockheads done in donated fabric
Scrap quilt drunkards path
Selvedge quilt
Sisters quilt
Marbling fabric
Emmaline bag for Cath
Drawstring bag for Lynn's foot peddle
Sew Alongs 2024 Weekly Monthly Other
In the meadow by quiet play in speckled, January-June
Riley Blake BOM January-May
The waiting list
Applique quilt - Threadneedle street
8x charm pack Quilts
Janet Clare minincharm pack Quilts
8 sea parrot Quilts (may combine some)
Vintage flower sampler quilt
Tilda quilt
Birds and baskets quilt in AMH echinacea
Sweet William quilt?
Tula butterfly in capel and castaway or using left over speckled?
Medallion quilt in liberty big prints
Orphan block quilts?
Jen Kingwell Bakers dozen, Blockheads or pluses quilt in Lucy Engles bundles?
Non quilting crafts - In progress
Temperature embroideries 2023
Trees from Victoria Sampler
Mood wheel of the year for 2024
Warm hearted penguin
Lolli and Grace mandala
Carina mandala
Get stitch done Oval f**k
Non quilting crafts - Waiting list
Spare bobble hat for me
Michael Powell snowy chapel X stitch
Michael Powell snowy street X stitch
2x Michael Powell bookmarks
Floral Alphabet sampler
Phenology Wheel
Fabric and thread inventory
I should add this in. At the start of 2023 I decided to look more consciously about what I bought. While working buying fabric was a distraction from the stress, I dont need that any more.
So! At the start of 2023 I roughly had about 470.5 meters (I know I know ....) at the end of the year I took in 95.25 meters but put out 94.25 meters so an almost neutral (but not quite) year. This gives me something to work on and aim for in 2024. I want to be in negative as in I put out more than I take in. Let's see!
As for thread I have taken in 1 spool but put out 5 so that's a good start there. I dont want any spools older than a year for 2025 lets see if I can do that!
