Unlock Your Full Potential in 2024: My Top Productivity Tips

If you want to make some great Quilts in 2024, then you need to start planning and working today! In this video, I'm sharing with you my top productivity tips to help you unlock your full potential in the next year so that we ALL have a stack of finished quilts at the end of 2024!

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[christinawaybright]

Found out on Christmas that we will be having a grandbaby this summer… so I have a special baby quilt to make!

[DS-icps]

To keep myself from starting too many projects: I have 6 storage boxes (12" x 1 5" ) and everything for one quilt goes in one of those boxes. When all 6 are in use, I have to finish one before I can start a new one!

[krisvanallen]

The last quilt I called bankruptcy on I took all of the pieces and parts, and donated to Goodwill. Hope someone bought it and fell in love with sewing.

[jilbertb]

I will only work on one quilt, start to finish. I seem to get more done over all.

If I don't want to finish one (it's ugly, too small, whatever), I give it to the church ladies, who use it for donation quilts.

[amyspanne]

I have 2 "resolutions" this year. 1. I joined a UFO of the month program at my lqs. Made a list of 12 UFOs and gave it to the shop to challenge me to finish each one in their random order. If I can't/don't finish any of these by the end of the year, I will (probably) give away the project, as you're calling it "bankruptcy." The other resolution is, "Start 1 finish 2." I don't start a new project until I've finished 2. Sometimes finishing is quilting & binding, sometimes piecing, but if I finish 2, I'll at least make progress on my UFO pile.

[RebeccaRohrmann]

Stopping myself from buying more fabric I think is starting to require Quilting anonymous. 😂

[joangieseke]

No buy resolutions haven’t worked for me in the past either. This year I’m asking two questions before I hit Add to Cart: What are you making with this? How soon are you going to make it? Hopefully that will cut down on impulse buying. Good luck to us all in being more mindful about fabric purchases! 😊

[gailg]

Excellent video and tips! No one should feel inadequate or guilty if they decide to declare quilt bankruptcy on a project. Our tastes change, desire to make for a specific person may change, you feel overwhelmed by all you projects, or you want to move on to different things.
It's not easy the few couple of times you declare bankruptcy, but it gets easier and you feel so much better!
I like to think of it as allowing the project to go to a new home where it will be more loved.

[ocean_hummer]

Great suggestions! May I also add one... consider donating your unfinished quilts to a charitable organization like Project Linus. They have volunteers who will gladly complete them and recipients who will benefit thanks to your generosity! 💕

[joanotto]

I have taken partially finished quilt tops, finished them and then donated them to a local charity. I love to do this. I am honest with people who gift these quilts to me that they will be donated. Put 12 under the Christmas giving tree at our local fire department.

[highlyblessedame]

Wonderful advice, especially for a newbie quilter that seems to have more fabric than i possibly need at this time. I have the same issue with yarn as an advanced crocheter. I haven't ourchased any yarn in several months to use what i have. The problem is that the industry brings new out, and they disappear, and then we never see them again, so I panic buy sometimes.

[UtahGmaw]

I just love your phrase "Quilt bankruptcy"! lol

[wendywilson]

I've been doing a lot of papercrafting for years, after i finished the last wedding quilt for nieces and nephews, then baby quilt for their little ones and our grandkids.This year, i decided to tackle my fabric and scraps. After two quilt tops, I made new curtains for our pop up camper. Now, I'm starting on my 3rd quilt top for 2024, with the sheet scraps left from making those curtains, and squares left over from our first camping quilt (US Route 66 theme) plus happy colored scrap strips and fat quarters. I have more quilts, and other projects in mind after this quilt.
I hope to make a serious dent in my scrap stash, this year!

[martikline]

Thanks for your advice. What I find helpful is bankruptcy. I have lost interest in two half finished projects and just keep procrastinating about a decision. I appreciate your advice.

[PattymacMakes]

Great tips Becca!! I'm also first putting attention on completing the 3 quilts I've got going right now and then get into the smaller projects in organizer bins. I'm on a no spend on fabric or anything sewing and quilting related for 90 days. I've never done a no spend challenge, so it's very different for me, but I do have a tendency to over shop and right now I have plenty of stuff on hand. If I do well with my first 90 days of no spend, I'm extending it another 90 and see if I get away with not buying anything sewing or quilting related for 6 months. I think I can do it!

[sewquilty]

I sure needed this talk!! This year I am trying to bullet journal what I get done in my sewing room every day. So far, it has really helped me 1st by realizing I DO get more done than I give myself credit for; 2nd keeping me focused & on track & 3rd finding that I feel challenged when I don't get much done. Hopefully I can keep it simple, keep it going, & Not allow it to become more of a chore than an encouragement! Great Tips! Glad I found your channel.

[joane]

You made me aware of my style of "buying stuff." I not only looked at the LARGE amount of fabric I already have, it spreads to my books, my food storage and even my stack of jeans. I truly overbuy and I'm only starting to admit that. his may be my resolution for 2024.

[vivianburrus]

Great tips! Yeah, "No Buy" never works for me but not impulse purchasing (waiting a day or two or a week after first seeing that "must have" fabric) often quells the desire for it -- usually because something else takes its place, LOL! By the time you compile the list of things you feel you've just got to have, the enormity of just how much you'd be spending in total pumps the breaks. If you're lucky something goes on sale which helps narrow the choices to just that item.

Understanding just how many steps are needed to make something (definite outline, not vague notions of it) and being clear about how long each step takes (or if a "step" is really a project in it's own right) has made me better at understanding how much I can really get done or why something didn't get done in the time expected. This results in having less "bankruptcy" projects (Love that term!) because I can clearly see whether or not they are completely hopeless and then keep or discard them without guilt.

[AnnemarieMakowsky]

Becca i would love to see a video on using Good Notes. I had no idea you could import files and write on them in there. I’m totally not using it effectively.

[vr]

Now I noticed two things most Becca; I don't see bubba. Did you put them to sleep for a little while? Lol and I absolutely love your shirt. Where in the world did you get that? I really like that shirt actually. That was the first thing I noticed was your shirt. Loved the video. Have a night