I accomplished many of my goals for 2025, but that’s over now. Here are a few ideas for 2026.

In January, I will again join Karen’s Sewing Room Declutter Challenge over at Just Get It Done Quilts. I seem to always need to declutter, and since I now have a 5 year downsizing plan (before we move to a retirement community) it’s even more relevant.

The studio looks pretty good because there are lots of corners where I can hide things,

Yes, this is what I consider “neat”–oops?

but some of those corners are kind of scary.

The only actual sewing things on this table are the pins, circled so you can find them–ha!

I’m going to continue making quilts for Flying Horse Farms (a camp for seriously ill children) with a goal of making about 5 more tops by the time my donation group meets again in April. I plan to make 3 quilts for the Quilts of Valor organization (which honors military veterans), as I did last year. And I’ll continue to make quilts for Ronald McDonald House (where children can stay with their families while needing hospital treatment). Quilts for Ronald McDonald are more variable in size, so I’ll probably make a lot of them. Number to be determined. I belong to multiple groups that make donation quilts, and plan to continue my participation.

This is a load of donation quilts in my friend’s car, ready to be delivered.

And then there are the UFOs (unfinished objects)! Since one of my goals this past year was to make more experimental and art quilts, there are kind of a lot of UFOs. So I’ve decided I need to do that thing where I get rid of one UFO each month. I’ll put letters A through L in a basket and tape corresponding letters to 12 UFOs, then draw a letter from the basket each month to decide which project to “finish”.

I made 12 lettered labels. One of each pair goes on a project and the other goes into the basket.

And by “finish” I mean “be done with”, which can be making the existing pieces into a quilt, using them to stuff a cat bed, or whatever. Just get that project out of my hair..er..studio!

As you know from a previous post, there are lots of new ideas for 2026 too, so here we go!