Discipline in 2014
 
Seriously? My last post was in September??  I know excuses only satisfy the one making them (right?) but it is hard taking time away from sewing to write up a new post. Does it get easier?

Well, I have been busy. I do not normally make more than one of anything but these little mice were too much fun. I made one for all the girls in the family. I would like to make more but this should do it. The pattern is from Fig Tree Quilts. Don't you love their colors and style??

I made a soft yellow, green, and brown quilt using Fig Tree fabrics. It's setting is a medallion style and I would like to add one more border. It is on the UFO list. Which brings me to the real subject line to this post...

I'm thinking about a UFO challenge. I love new years and the thought of ringing in the new, don't you?. This must be some kind of sickness because I am real good about starting something new. Ah, the delight! The inspiration! The fever to keep working. Who needs sleep? I love the high! 

And I do not loose interest. I love ALL my UFOs...it is just I begin another project (and a new rush of excitement) and the old ones slip back in priority. So this coming new year, 2014, I need to make a goal for completing some of these beauties and pass them on to those who may enjoy them. FREEDOM!!

I belong to the yahoo group, Stashbusters. They have challenges too and I love to celebrate with the others' accomplishments. I just have to solidify my goal into numbers...and go through the cupboards and prioritize.

And isn't it funny how working on one unfinished project sometimes generates another??  I mean, you can't just throw away those extra strings and squares! I have those organized in plastic drawers for some "scrap therapy". And so the story goes on.

I jumped in Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt project a few weeks ago. You just can't go wrong with Bonnie! I love her designs and I love her challenge of 100 of this, and 100 of that. No whining, she likes to say! Just keep sewing. 

This mystery is called Celtic Solstice.  I have been keeping up so far but I do hope she soon gives directions in putting these units together. I can't wait to see the result.

I love the colors she suggested but I have no idea what or where this quilt will go when completed. Once the beds are covered, quilt making is for the pure joy of making them, you know.

So, back to step 5 on my Celtic Solstice. And to tabulate a list of projects to finish this coming new year.