Thursday, January 3, 2019

PhD in 2018

In 2018, Gail from Quilting Gail hosted a PhD program (Projects Half Done) to encourage completion of UFOs and trying to prevent creating more.  There were two parts to her challenge:
  • Make a lit of all your UFOs at the beginning of the year and finish at least half.  
  • Complete all projects started in 2018
I was successful on both parts!  My UFO list had 29 projects.  I completed 19 of those 29 projects!!!

The second half of the challenge was harder for me.  I like to start projects!  But I resisted a lot.  Because I have a lot of time off the second half of December, I made a deal with Gail that projects started during that break would not count.  I actually didn't start very many during that time this year anyway, as I concentrated on my UFO list.


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First, my list of UFOs from the beginning of the year with completion dates.

Project

Date Completed
I Wish You A Merry Quilt Along
1
1-13-2018
Growth Chart for friends
2
1-15-2018
Aqua/Brown doggies
3
1-21-2018
Monopoly
4
2-11-2018
Happy Weekend/Green I Spy
5
2-19-2018
Secret Project version #1 (Message in a Bottle: Pirate Monkeys)
6
3-10-2018
Secret Project version #2 (Message in a Bottle: Red, White, & Blue)
7
3-14-2018
Owls
8
4-15-2018
Mollie’s baby quilt
9
4-16-2018
Scottie Dogs
10
5-18-2018
Elephants –became 2 projects (pink)
11
5-27-2018
Savanna
12
7-28-2018
Sports I Spy (project with my son)
13
8-9-2018
Canyon
14
8-26-2018
Color Block I Spy
15
9-17-2018
Elephants –became 2 projects (rainbow)
16
10-7-2018
Rin
17
11-24-2018
Vintage Holiday (renamed Winter Memories)
18
12-28-2018
I Spy for Mom
19
12-31-2018
Bookshelf quilt
20

I Spy for our bed
21

Snowmen
22

Doggone Cute
23

Magical Forest
24

Lion Pillow
25

Giraffe Pillow
26

Laura’s quilt
27

Dandelion Embroidery
28

Food themed picnic blanket
29



Next, my list of projects started in 2018, not counting those started in the last two weeks of the year.

Started in 2018


Jan & Don’s quilt

2-17-2018
Amy’s Baby Quilt

6-23-2018
Patriotic Stars (Bee Blocks)

6-24-2018
Scrap Dance: Square Dance (Mystery Quilt)
became 2 quilts

7-29-2018
8-20-2018
Pumpkins Aplenty

8-25-2018
April’s baby quilt

9-15-2018
Happy Birthday Banner

9-28-2018
Fireburst Mystery

10-21-2018
Fall QAL

12-04-2018
Bumper 2 Bumper (Rainbow Scrap Challenge)

12-16-2018
Fire Monkey’s quilt

12-24-2018
Devin’s baby quilt




Those started in 2018 were mostly Quilt Alongs (5) or baby quilts (3).  You'll notice one baby quilt is not actually completed.  I've got about 12" of binding still to hand-stitch.  I stitch my labels into the binding and I'm waiting for baby's name and birth date so I can put those on the label.  

In total, I finished 31 projects in 2018!  Thank you, Gail, for such fantastic motivation!

Gail is doing a PhD in 2019 program, too, you can get info here.  I'll be participating again (list coming soon) to see if I can do as well as I did this year!

4 comments:

  1. YEAH Emily!!! You've done sew very well - accomplishing your quilting PHD in 2018!
    Happy Quilting! :-)

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  2. Wow! You definitely graduated with honors from that PHD program! Congrats on a very successful 2018. Hope you have as much success in 2019 (You'd clean off that UFO list if you do even half as well!).

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  3. You did great! I tend to push through to complete most things as I go, as much of what I do is donated. Still, there are a couple hanging around that I need to either finish or just donate as they are.

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  4. So impressed! I am going to list mine and hold myself accountable by joining in with Pat Sloan. I think I do better if I know I have a list and goals. Once I tried the "I can't start a new quilt or buy more fabric until I finish a UFO" It lasted a few months :)

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