Betty's 2024 achievement challenge

 

Deana is hosting a challenge for the Chookshed Stitchers and anyone else really that wants to join in that blogs. 

If you read the post above you can find out the details. 

I had attached the logo if your joining in you can add it to your sidebar and use if when you post about the challenge. 

Go on be brave or crazy (like me) and join us. 

I've made my little list of 10 things we'll need to complete in 2024. However, because of my renos downstairs and then the family living in half my quilting studio upstairs the list will be a little different to the lists of others who are focusing on quilting. My focus is on Studio Decluttering and Maintenance to enable our group to make quilts. I have broken the huge jobs down into manageable tasks that I hope friends can help with and it will start when the family moves out in mid January.

1. Quick tidy and clean to start the ball rolling moving furniture back to where it used to live.
2. Deep clean of the banisters with a toothbrush and oiled cloth.
3. Deep clean of the drawers that store my cut squares. These were not sealed during the last part of the painting so are quite dusty inside.
4. Move and clean the treadle machine so it is again usable. 
   
   
   
5. Empty the cotton reel holder (holds about 100 reels) and dust the nooks and crannies. 
   
   
   
6. Clean all sewing machines, find homes for the ones I no longer want, clean and put new needles in the ones I will keep.
7. Find homes for all finished quilts. 
   
   
   
   
   Two that I had kept are now being used as 'doors' on two messy wardrobes.
8. Finish 3 small heat mats and 3 sink mats for new kitchen. The sink mats protect my new wooden benches from water damage.
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Dust inside all display cabinets. They got dusty inside even though they were sealed.
10. Put solar resistant film on all front and back windows upstairs.  Back windows now done upstairs and it makes such a difference to the heat.
11. Put solar resistant film on all downstairs windows - 2 bedrooms and a laundry and my new pantry.  Kitchen done and my artwork is a bit of fun!

1. There is now some pressure to get something ready to take to Scrub Stitchin' so I need to bind jewel quilt for hand hemming.
2. Finish small waterlily sashiko.

How about that for a list???

February update: by the end of February I have completed tasks 1-8 so am just about ready to start sewing again.

March update: Now I can add a list of sewing projects for the next part of the challenge...

1. Jacobs' Ladder quilt using my husband's shirts. Our name is Jacobs.
2. Australian Dreaming blocks in various fabric sets - chooks, waterlilies, Australian aboriginal fabrics...
3. Finish Jewel quilt.
4. Finish border on Waterlily Sashiko and consider fabric paints.