Quilting Goals for 2006

Without goals and feeling like I am accountable to someone for reaching those goals, I am perfectly happy to sit at the computer all day! Thank you (NOT!) to whomever it was last week who shared the Sudoku site! Debra Spincic has posted her quilting goals for 2006 and challenged her readers to do the same. My "goals" are just to keep me on track. They are not going to dictate what I do for the entire year but if at the end of the year, I have accomplished everything on the list, I'll have to give myself a reward of some kind. Rewards that seem interesting today are a quilting cruise, the Janome 6600 or maybe just a week somewhere with some of my best quilting buddies. I have to meet the goals before I spend too much time thinking about a reward, right? The manuscript for the book, and the 20 quilts to be in the book, are due in August. That deadline will be what really consumes my time in 2006 and I cannot get behind. This is supposed to be fun and if I feel pressured, it will no longer be fun. Many of the quilts for the book are being made by others but I still have to make at least one quilt from each pattern before sending out to the testers. Even though I plan to make 180 quilts from the stash, I’m not going to rush through them. I don’t think I ever want to be in the position of having no stash at all. Yeah, right . . like that could ever happen! So, without further adieu, here are my quilting goals for 2006:

• UFO’s – Finish at least 15 of the quilts on my UFO list. Most only need quilting, binding and a label.
• Book Quilts – 20 quilts. Even though some are being made by others, I can finish the “test” quilts I made and they’ll be available for trunk shows, etc.
• Stash Quilts - Make at least 10 stash quilts.
• AQS Show in Paducah – I’d like to get at least one quilt entered for this show. Deadline is January 4
• AQS Expo in Nashville – I’d like to get at least one quilt entered for this show. Deadline is May 3.
• EQ/QNM Contest – I’d like to get at least one quilt entered for this contest. Deadline is June 16.

That's at least 48 quilts and that's doable since so many of them are already pieced and I have the longarm so quilting is a breeze. 48 quilts translates to 4 per month. Piece 'o cake! :) There will be other quilts that need to be done for gifts or charities that speak to me during the year but for now, those are the goals that come to mind. Judy L.