Happy New Year!! As we ring in 2025, many of you might have created some quilting resolutions. In the past, I have said I was not buying any new fabric, or not starting any new projects or not buying new rulers or gadgets. Or there were a couple years when I said I was cleaning up the sewing room, or not putting anything quilting related on the dining room table. Spoiler alert…all these noble ideas fell through by the end of February, usually earlier. Reports show that most people quit their New Year’s resolutions by the second Friday in January. They even named it Quitters Day.
But I’m not a quitter, I’m a QUILTER! So, I scrapped all those “crazy quilt” notions and pieced together a new pattern of New Year’s resolutions.
I am not buying any new fabric unless it is beautiful, unusual, the perfect color to go with fabric I already have or if the fabric just calls out, “take me home!”
I am only going to start new projects that I am super excited to start, even if I think will stop working on them in a few steps
I will only buy a new ruler or gadget if it seems like it will make a project easier or it’s a super great price.
I will clean up the sewing room, no if, ands or buts about it, however, no promises that it won’t be even messier after unearthing all those projects, gadgets and fabrics I find while cleaning
And last but certainly not least, the dining room table in 2025 will solely be used for quilting and no food will be allowed in the newly named Alternate Quilting Room!
No matter if you set resolutions or not, I hope everyone plans to join us at Quilters Unlimited this year to celebrate the wonderful craft we all just can’t quit, because we aren’t quitters, we’re QUILTERS UNLIMITED!!
Happy Quilting,
Kerry