Goal List for 1st Quarter Finish-Along 2019

With the start of a new calendar year comes the opportunity to play along with the international gals from the ongoing Finish-Along Challenge. So today I’m listing the quilting and sewing goals I’ll be working toward for the next three months and linking up to the goal setting post HERE.

Last quarter I had ten goals and finished eight of them. So, this quarter I’ll start off with the two I didn’t get to last quarter.

1.   BIRDS IN THE LATTICE
FINISHED AND BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

Birds will be the first quilt I work on after I finish Saguaro Sunset (more on that in a minute), which is a gift with a deadline. It'll be sent out to a longarmer once the top and back are pieced. I hope to get it back and bound by the end of the quarter.

2.  ON RINGO LAKE

This one is a piecing nightmare for me to get the orientation of every little component straight, but I’ve sure learned a lot. And I love the colors I chose (gray instead of brown as a variation from Bonnie Hunter’s color pull).

3.   SAGUARO SUNSET
FINISHED AND BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

This quilt will be a gift for my sister- and brother-in-law when we see them in February, so I’m shooting for a January finish.


4.   REMEMBERING ARCHIBALD aka The Scottie Dog Quilt
FINISHED AND BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

We once had a Scottish Terrier named Archibald (Archie). Since this fabric consists of black and white terriers, it reminded me of him. It will be a donation quilt. One of my goals this year is to include a lot of gender-neutral and/or masculine colors and fabrics in my donation quilt-making.

5.   ELEPHANTS
FINISHED TWO OF THEM! BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

Speaking of gender-neutral donation quilts, that’s what is planned for this donation quilt. I got the elephant fabric on deep discount from a local quilt shop after I got back from Africa (where I got to visit and adopt two elephants from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust).  I’m thinking that using Happy Blocks as a pattern will be perfect!

6.   SELVAGE QUILT
FINISHED AND BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

This quilt is also a holdover from last year.  I had a selvage quilt on my list last quarter, but had enough blocks to make two quilts then. And then there were STILL blocks, so I put them away until this quarter. Another donation quilt.

7.   GOOD FORTUNE

These are the pieces I’ve got to assemble to finish up the most recent Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt, Good Fortune.

8.   WALL QUILT OF Bonnie & Camile FABRIC TUMBLERS
Finished and blogged about HERE.

I have some Bonnie and Camille fabric and have used it in quilts before. These are red, white and aqua leftover fat quarters from a couple of their fabric lines and a piece I’ll use for backing. I’ve been cutting them into tumblers and will make a simple wall hanging that can replace the Christmas wall hanging that’s now packed away. The wall is bare, and I eventually want to have a half dozen wall quilts that I can switch for different seasons.

And from the Parts Department, which needs some serious culling:

 9.   PARTS DEPARTMENT TABLE RUNNER

10.  PARTS DEPARTMENT DONATION QUILT
Finished and blogged about HERE.

11.   PARTS DEPARTMENT KENNEL QUILTS (at least 4!)
FINISHED AND BLOGGED ABOUT HERE.

I’d like to make all of those items 9-11 from my stash of blocks and components in my Parts Department.

12.  PINEAPPLES TWO

And just for the fun of it, I’m going to add another Pineapple Quilt to the list. I already have the yellow strips cut and the backing bought. This will be for me, so it probably won’t work its way to the needle until next quarter, but just in case.....