Happy New Year.. a little late

I've been meaning to write this post for awhile but I feel like I was so far behind I didn't know where to start.

Well another year has come and gone. I was doing pretty good on the posts and then the holidays happened! And then it seemed like such a big task to capture all that has happened. I've decided I've postponed long enough so I am just going to blog and on days that I don't have anything to blog about I'll just back track.

I am not going to make any resolutions or promises for the year, I know better. But I will try hard to blog so that I can keep track of the projects that I am working on.

I am doing the APQ UFO Challenge again. I made great progress last year and it did help me stay focused. Here is what was accomplished last year. I realized that some of the projects that I initially wanted to do at the beginning of the year maybe didn't seem to have the same importance as the year progressed and I am ok with that.

Six projects done out of twelve. I am pretty happy with that as that is six projects that I don't have in my UFO pile!

Seven projects out of twelve was finished. As with the quilts this is seven things that aren't on my UFO list. However things like the chemo hats and baby booties will always be on my list.

So whats on the agenda for next year?

The number for January was #12. I've made progress and the good news is that there is still about another week left this month!

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