Canning Goals

1. Try pressure canning for Marinara sauce, Green Beans
2. Make Jam/Jelly – I really liked last year’s Strawberry Vanilla jam, Blueberry pie Jam, Apple Jelly, Sweet Cherry Jam
3. Try a Peach Jam this year.
4. Either play with the Salsa recipe or try a different one.
5. Plan for tomato canning – preorder tomatoes.  Do Marinara sauce and salsa at a minimum.
6. Can something with Pears this year.
7. Repeat Apple Canning weekend – Apple Butter, Applesauce, Apple Honey Almond Conserve, and Apple Peel Jelly.

Quilting Goals

1. Continue improving my quilting and try some
2. Send quilts to long arm:
   1. Lilac Hill Quilt for Guest BR
   2. 12 days of Christmas
3. Quilt and Bind these quilt tops
   1. Simply Silly (part of the 2012 UFO challenge) – DONE 2/8/12!!!
   2. Fun Flowers
   3. Black and White Postage Stamp Quilt
4. Complete these tops
   1. Lilac Hill Throw – next step sew HST’s into blocks
   2. Denim Quilt – finish cutting blocks, order border and backing fabric
   3. Charlie’s T shirt quilt –DONE 1/4/12!!!
   4. Dress Shirt quilt   – Blocks but, but needs to be redesigned.
   5. Happy Quilt (freckled whimsy QA) – review project and evaluate
   6. Paris BOM – finish month 1 blocks.
   7. Orca Bay Mystery Quilt – Ready to assemble blocks and top
   8. Work on Mom’s Butterfly quilt
   9. Easy Street Mystery Quilt – part of step 1 done
5. Begin and complete these projects
   1. Baby Oyler quilt –  Top completed, ready to quilt
   2. Doodle Bugs applique Baby Quilt –  Blocks prepped, ready to applique
   3. Paw Paw Tshirt  quilt for Connor
   4. Dad Oyler Tshirt quilt for DH
   5. Diamonds Quilt for MBR
   6. Make a Sewing Machine Cover
   7. Make a new Dr. Seuss Diaper bag with “Oh the places you’ll go”
6. Continue with these projects
   1. Farmers Wife
   2. Star Quilt – hand project
   3. Hexagon Christmas Tree wall hanging – hand project
7. Next up in Line
   1. Swing Patch with GA fabric
   2. Cappuccino Delight
   3. Chocolate Blueberry Squares
   4. Crossing Paths
   5. Hugs and Kisses
   6. Sunny All-Around

Future Goal:   Try a full on applique project – i.e. a block with multiple applique shapes working together. – Try Miss Mimi BOM, part of fabric purchased Dec 2011.