2021 Wrap up and 2022 Goals

Another year is wrapping up, and it is time to look ahead to what we hope the upcoming year will bring. When I went back to look at last year’s goals, I realized that I had never made a list. By the time 2020 was over, I guess I wasn’t in a great frame of mind to “plan” anything! The past year did have quite a few very positive quilt related things happen- even without a list of goals, so here are some highlights of 2021 and goals for 2022!

2021 Highlights

• Designing the Endangered Species Blocks to Accompany the 2021 Aurifil Color Builder Program
• Completing my Countdown to QuiltCon 100 day quilt (later titled Emergence)
• Teaching at QuiltCon Together
• Re-releasing several patterns in a PDF version including:
  • Zoo Family Portrait
  • Raise the Roof
  • Polar Bear Block
  • Festive Baubles
• Creating fabric panels to complement my designs and classes including this stripe and floral panel that went with a post I wrote for Aurifil and these Zoo Family Portrait Panels in the original and an alternate color way.
• Co-hosting Quilt Concert 2021: First Notes with Lissa of Lovingly Lissa
• Starting and sending a weekly newsletter
• Designing the QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilt for my local guild
• Incorporating new-to-me tools in my work including Adobe Rush and Spark (now called CC Express)
• Having four quilts accepted into QuiltCon 2022!

2022 Goals

• Design and create a 100 day quilt between January 1st and April 10th
• Participate in Quilt Pro Connection and add a printed option to my top selling patterns to reach out to the wholesale market
• Teach at QuiltCon 2022
• Develop/write additional classes, lectures, and articles
• Co-host Quilt Concert 2022 with Lissa of Lovingly Lissa
• Write and release 6+ Patterns including:
  • Zoo Quilt #2
  • Quilt Concert 2022
  • The Value of Value
• Blog once a week with additional posts as appropriate content arises
• Continue releasing a regular newsletter
• Create at least three quilts appropriate for entry in QuiltCon and get back in the routine of entering other quilt shows
• Quilt at least two of the quilt tops I have laying around 🤣

I’m linking this post up with the 2022 Planning Party, hosted by Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl. If you blog or post on Instagram, I hope to see your post there too!