I’m a List Kind of Person

I’m a list kind of person. I make a list every morning of what I want to do each day. I find it helps me stay on task and gives me focus. I find great satisfaction in crossing things off. A little confession. I sometimes add things to my list that weren’t there to begin with just cause I did them and I want to cross them off. As a mom so much of what I do doesn’t look done for very long; the laundry, dinner, housekeeping) So having a list is proof that I actually did something each day. Silly I know but it helps me feel good about each day. Especially those day when I rush like crazy and seem to have nothing to show for it. I also keep a list in my sewing room of projects I’m working on. I make a grid. I have a place for the name of the project, a place to check when it’s cut out, when the blocks are sewn, when they are put together, when the top is done, when it is quilted, and when it is bond. It gives me in a quick glance what I need to work on. Which helps me with my next list. Each week I make a list of things I want to accomplish in my sewing room. I can look at my grid and see what needs to be done and I make a list to further those projects. Yes I’m probably a little OCD. Here is one of those lists. In my quilt guild we make a list of 10 projects each year that we want to finish or at least move a little closer to completion. Then every other month we pick a number and we have two months to finish that project or we owe the guild a fat quarter. Here is my list. I work ahead. But it is a chance thing, cause sometimes the ones I work on are not the ones that get picked.

That happened this time. I had finished almost half of my list I thought I was doing good and then #1 got picked. My #1 is the Christmas Cottages that were giving me grief here. (Thanks to everyone that gave advice. I really appreciate it.) I was about to give up on them and just give the guild a fat quarter. But I had this Nicey Jane by Heather Bailey I thought the twinkles in it would be fun with the Christmas quilt. So I changed the background on the Santas. Used the blue I had for sashing and put the Santas in the corners so my name still works, (A Santa on Every Corner) I sewed on the last border this morning. Now I just need to quilt and bind it. I thinking of a red binding what do you think?