Just Three for July

Well, another month is upon us and pretty soon it will be December...they seriously have autumn/Thanksgiving decorations up at JoAnn's.

Time to see how I did in June with my Just Three Goals.

1) Make a Swoon quilt for a friend's wedding.  Did it!!  And it turned out great. 

2) Keep up with the bee's and other required-to-be-done-by-the-end-of-June commitments.  Ok...I didn't get everything done for June that I was supposed to, but that's what the weekend is for! 

3) Relax a bit. Check!  Going to CA helped a bit, and making Hexagons for the Hexy MF worked too.  That's turning into my slow down and enjoy project.  I'm hoping it doesn't take 10 years though.


Now to make some new goals for July!

1) Catch up with June obligations and keep up with July obligations (and don't join anything else)

2) Don't buy any more fabric - This is going to be a toughie.  Have you seen the stuff that comes out this month?!  But I have enough and need to get things finished before I start anything else.

3) Add three quilts to my Etsy shop - This shouldn't be too hard.  I have at least 5 tops I've made that are baby/toddler size quilts that I just made for no particular reason, that are waiting to be basted, quilted, and finished.  And I already basted one last night :)

 Basically I've noticed that my WIP pile is way too big.  I am seriously lacking in finishing discipline skills.  So that's what I'm going to work on this month.   That and not starting any more projects...yet...

Just Three from Tracey

I love this idea from Tracey and am totally copying her and linking up over here at her blog.  This is an awesome goal, and I think it'll be really successful for me. 

The idea is to set three reachable goals for April.  Tracey and I seem to have the same issue of wasting our kids synchronized naptimes and perusing online fabric shops, pinterest, facebook...those time traps.  Time that I could easily spend binding (my least favorite part...) unfinished quilts, sewing pieces together or just making progress on my way too many WIP's and up my rate of finishing things! Heck, today I had enough time to cut some fabric for a swap but...then I didn't.  So!

Here's my list of three things to get done in April:

1) Bind my Drunkard's Path quilt - This baby has been quilted and waiting patiently on top of the dryer for over a month...sad...and I'm so anxious to use it!  It's going to be a wonderful lap quilt.  Anyone have an opinion on these considerations for the binding?

 Ok, this is the best shot I could get.  My top pick is the second one, it's a light aqua polka dot.  The one under it isn't as red as it looks, more of a raspberry print.  What do you think?

2) Finish and mail my Hoop Up! Stitch and Send Swap projects - Don't have pictures of these yet, but they are in progress.  I've been working on them a little here, a little there and it's just too slow of a pace.  Plus, they need to be out by the middle of the month (end of next week?  what?) so they'll have to get done.

3) Bind Ben (Husband)'s quilt - I finished quilting this one over the weekend, but it's such a honker of a ginormous thing, that I'm nervous to trim the sides and just get it over with. Haven't picked binding fabric for that one either...


Anywho... these are pretty reachable goals for me if I can just bit the bullet and sit down to do them.  But I've got to start somewhere, right?  So, those are my three goals for the month, what are yours?!