I started blogging more frequently on my quilting website a few weeks ago about my efforts to work on projects more consistently. After writing several non-quilting related posts I decided to start this blog and move those posts over here. That way I can keep my quilting website focused on my long-arm quilting business and projects, and I will write about all my other projects here!

I am back-dating these posts to match the date I originally posted it on.

The first post:

I wanted this year, 2026, to be the year of finishing the many started-but-not-completed projects that have accumulated in my tiny sewing room (aka the closet under the stairs in our townhouse), but the first three months of the year filled up with other obligations and a couple rounds of sicknesses in our home and here we are with very few of those projects touched so far.

A decluttering tip I heard recently for clearing clutter in project spaces was to just finish the project – duh! So I am going to jot down updates about my progress decluttering my sewing closet that way.

Also, we are house shopping. While I hope that our new house has a larger space for me to sew, I can’t count on it, and the reality is that if a half-finished project that is currently in my sewing closet isn’t finished by the time we have to pack up this house, it isn’t going to be worked on for many more months. So that is another reason to work on these projects.

Finally, I love – and I mean LOVE – to start new projects, but I simply can’t until I finish ones I have already started. So if I want to have the fun of getting new fabric, and choosing patterns, and having the thrill of starting something new, I have got to move some of the current projects out of my sewing closet by finishing them.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, but I will have some time between church and dinner without obligations so I need to hunt out the large crochet hook I am using for a blanket and work on a row or two of that project.