Jayne's Quilting Room: Scoring Myself on 2025 Goals

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Scoring Myself on 2025 Goals

Reckoning time has come! Let's take a tally on how well I did in completing last year's quilting goals.

1. Cotton Ridge Farm OR Grist Mill
2. Wensleydale
3. Aurora
4. Continue work on Lake Effect
5. Continue work on Grandmother's Flower Garden
6. Use Winnemucca Fabric
7. Smoked Cheddar
8. Long Arm Lots of Quilts

1.) I did make Cotton Ridge Farm and I love how it turned out.

2.) I foundation pieced all the Wenselydale blocks with my special stash of Tilda fabrics. I set them aside and now have them with me here in Florida to stitch together.

3.) I did nothing toward making Aurora, so it will make a repeat appearance on the '26 goals.

4.) I did work on Lake Effect, but not very enthusiastically, I admit. I brought it with me to work on while here this winter.

5.) I did work enthusiastically on Grandmother's Flower Garden; I ended up making it even bigger than I expected. Adding a border will be the work for my time here in FL.

6.) I did not use the Winnemucca fabric. However, I have finally decided on a pattern and am planning to cut it out as soon as I get back home in April. There's a retreat soon after we get back, and this will likely be my central retreat effort.

7.) I did make Smoked Cheddar; began it last winter while in FL, then finished it at retreat.

8,) I did get some long arming done: Lydia's Lace; Good Life (Tag Sale); Fall Leaves; Blue and White Double Irish Chain; Red Ohio Stars; 9-Patch Strippy.

Quilted Autumn Leaves.

And while we are on the subject of long arming, let me confess a most disappointing situation.

I came out with a bold long arm goal in late October to quilt 5 quilts before the end of the year. I was super motivated after I'd bought 5 backing fabrics on a spectacular sale from Quilted Twins in Dade City, FL. I matched the 5 backs to flimsies in my closets and then my long arm decided to be contrary. Thread breakage, over and over and over and over. It was so aggravating! I spent many hours attempting to remedy this issue. I eventually just quit trying, as other things needed to be done, and I was getting nowhere at correcting the breakage issue. I will tackle it in April when we return.

To tally this all up, I will give myself 6 out of 8 completed goals. Zilch for Aurora and for Winnemucca. Progress was made on all others, regardless of how much. We won't talk about those 5 backings waiting to go on the long arm!

I did make some quilts that were not even on my goals list: Kaffe Fassett Scrappy 4-patch; Lydia's Lace; a child's quilt using a panel; and a Tilda Hexi/9-Patch table topper.