2012 here we come!

There are so many posts in blogland over the last few days about everyone's amazing accomplishments for 2011 and goals for 2012.  I find these posts so inspiring!

As I look back to my goals for 2011, I did pretty well on the sewing and time goals I had for myself but not as well on the business goals.  It is so much more fun to design and sew quilts than it is to work on the business part :)

Unrelated picture of the duvet cover I made for my niece.

I've been working on my list of goals for 2012.  At this point it is ridiculously long!  I have goals for the number of new patterns to design, charity quilts to make, tutorials or free patterns to release and projects to submit to magazines.  If I add up all these quilts it comes out to about forty!  Not very realistic for me if I ever want to get any of the business goals accomplished too.

I could eliminate some of the goals, but I'll probably just leave them and not meet them all.  That's OK with me.  It is the working toward the goals that is the most important activity.  For instance, I'd like to have six new patterns designed and published by Spring.  Six isn't really a magic number, so if I get four or five done, I'll still be satisfied as long as I'm making progress on other fronts too.

Another one of the things I'd really like to do this year is to host a quilt along.  I participated in two last year and it was so much fun.  I have a few possible ideas running around in my head, but haven't worked them into just the right project yet.  If you have any ideas about what would be a fun quilt along I'd love to hear them!