Sewing Plans for the New Year

Wow, it's really been a long time since I posted anything here. I haven't been keeping my sewing stories to myself....sad to say, I haven't been able to get behind my sewing machine since May. I've read a few magazines, picked up a few yards of fabric at after-holiday prices, and filled my head with aspirations, ambitions, and assorted longings....but I haven't managed to sit at my machine.

I guess the long dry spell has three culprits: a project flop, getting pregnant while trying to sew a blouse (who knows what size I'll be when the new baby is born....), and a baby who learned to crawl, then walk, then run. The flop was the legacy quilt I last posted about. I washed it, and several bad things happened. Some of the cotton was not pre-shrunk, and for a cotton-polyester quilt, that spells trouble. The yarn I tied it with frayed horribly. And some of the stitching came undone due to raveling in the polyester fabric. It really knocked me down, and with the baby and all that, I just haven't gotten back up. Ugh.

So I'm starting the new year off right: with resolutions, and then some sewing time. I'll have to be quick in this post so I don't completely run out of nap time before I actually get to my machine!

January

• Either fix the legacy quilt for Tater or toss it out and start a new one.
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Finish assembling tesselating leaf blocks
  
• Make quilt sandwich for sampler quilt
  

February

• Make 4 gift bags
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Quilt sampler quilt
  
• Cut & piece quilt for my new little one
  

March

• Make 4 gift bags
  
• Make quilt sandwich for leaf quilt
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Sandwich, quilt, and bind quilt for my new little one
  

With a baby due at the end of March, I expect I won't do a lot of sewing in April.... April

• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Investigate & buy supplies for nursingwear dress patterns
  

May

• Make 4 gift bags
  
• Finish piecing chicken quilt.
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Cut & sew nursingwear dress patterns
  

June

• Make 4 gift bags
  
• Sandwich chicken quilt.
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  
• Make muslin and fit new blouse pattern
  

July

• Quilt & bind chicken quilt.
  
• Make holiday gift to-do list
  
• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  

August

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• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  

September

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• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  

October

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• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  

November

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• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project
  

December

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• Complete 1 mending/refashioning project