To-Do Tuesday 12-29-15 | Goodbye 2015

I’m writing my post on Sunday night, because Monday we will be driving all day to pick up the kids from their Christmas vacation with their Dad. When this posts on Tuesday, we’ll be busily celebrating our Christmas with the kids. I am so excited! Before Tuesday gets here though, I’ve been a bit reflective today on 2015.

I spent a lot of time thinking about what my favorite accomplishment was this past year. I scrolled through my Instagram feed looking for a completed project. The only one I could immediately think of was the purse I made for my Mom for her birthday. Looking through my pictures, I was disappointed to realize that all of the projects I wanted to finish this past year did not get finished. I just didn’t have the time, and that makes me sad. I will be making a change here and there so that I have the time I need to work on these projects in 2016.

When the new year comes around I never make resolutions. I don’t believe in them. I do believe in deciding what I want my goals to be for the year and making a plan to achieve them. But resolving to get certain things done? That never works well for me. Because if my plans change, or whatever I resolved to do doesn’t get done in the way I hoped it would, then I feel like I’ve failed. And rather than set myself up for failure I just plan out my goals for the year. Goals can change, and when they do it is often done without thought of failure but with adaptability and acceptance that things can, and (usually) will, change.

So… What are my goals for 2016? I would like to get one quilt top WIP quilted and bound each month. I currently have 5 quilt tops that are ready to be finished. So I should have them all done by May. I signed up for the Bag of The Month Club which runs from January to June. I would like to get each bag completed within the month it is released, with the exception of May and June. We’re usually doing our summer preparation in May and we are usually vacationing in June. I also would like to sew one additional bag (from a different pattern I already have) monthly from January to April. After returning from summer vacation, I would like to continue sewing two bags per month as well as start, and complete, one quilt per month.

I think I’ve chattered on long enough. This week my last sewing To-Do for 2015 will be to write one last post on a quilt I finished earlier this year and completely forgot to blog about. I will have it posted no later than New Years Eve so that I start off 2016 with a clean slate!

What were your favorite accomplishments in 2015?
What are your goals for 2016?

This week’s To-Do list:

• Write last blog post for 2015
• Celebrate the new year!

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