Quilt Goals for 2022

Quilt goals for 2022. It’s New Year’s Day, and that makes today Darcy Quilts’ birthday!  This little passion project of mine is four years old now!

As with all previous New Years, I am making a list of quilt goals and business goals for the upcoming year.

It’s so good for me to have a plan, to have a to do list, to see the end goal. 

At the same time, I need to leave room in my crafty plans for creativity, which sometimes takes hold in my brain and won’t let me rest until I’ve sketched the quilt pattern or pulled the fabric or sometimes just written down the idea to save for later. 

Quilting Goals for 2022

1. Half Rectangle Triangles

I tackled learning how to make Half Rectangle Triangles (HRTs) a few years ago, and turned my new love into the Sensation Quilt Pattern.  I have been itching to do some more HRT quilting ever since and have a couple of patterns bopping around in my brain.

I’d like to get those pattern ideas to coalesce into something workable and write a new pattern or tutorial in 2022.

2. Clean Out the Scrap Box

Am I setting myself up for failure by rehashing this never-completed goal?

Perhaps. 

Am I going to keep setting this goal until the scrap box is more manageable?

Definitely.

Do I currently have any scrappy quilts starting to take shape in my mind?

Nope!

Does the world need more Scrappy Quilts with Star Sashing?

Yes!

3. Find a new color palette to work with.

While I love the minty green and navy blue palette that has become my mainstay over the last few years, I want to make a quilt that is way outside of my comfort zone in terms of colors.

I saw a quilt recently that was full of magentas, reds, oranges and some dark purples.  I would never have thought to put those colors together, but it was stunning!

This year I want to get outside of my color comfort zone.

I’m ready to start with this goal with these fun Lady Bird fabrics.  There is nothing about these colors in an of themselves that is outside of my typical color palette, but these are much busier prints that I would normally use, and this seems like a good baby step towards this goal.

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4. Finish last year’s incomplete goals. 

I am only going to set four goals, for this fourth birthday, but I’m going to make the last goal a big one.

All of the 2021 goals that I didn’t get to last year are all still on the table for this year.

That means increasing pattern sales, creating my own pattern shop outside of Etsy, quarter square triangles (I’ve already bought the fabric for this one!) and several other as yet unfinished goals that you can read all about here.

So, that’s it for goals this year.  Goals are good in that they keep me focused and give me direction.  But also, my mental bandwidth is incredibly low these days, and trying to create a longer list of goals is simply outside of abilities. 

Rest assured, goals or no goals, my number one goal at Darcy Quilts is to make pretty quilts that get lots of use, and to write patterns and tutorials that make quilting more accessible to you too!

Let’s make 2022 our best year of quilting yet!