Episode 72: Grading 2022 and Looking Ahead to 2023
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In this episode, Sherri, Chelsi, and Billy review some great listener feedback they received from the last episode. They then grade themselves on how they did with their 2022 goals and set some new goals for 2023.
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What a show, you two amaze me in what you get done, the goals you have set for next year and grading yourself on this last year. You both should get A+ in my eyes. Thank you for making me think about goals for my next year.
You must realize this is your career. And you are very successful. Chelsi you have a young family and Sherri being a mom and grandma just expands your role. I think y’all are definitely A+++! Well done.
👏👏👏very well said ❤️😀
I think because Billy isn't. A Quilter he should give himself an A for his hard work on the podcast
Every January I make pet beds for Furry Friends in Jupiter FL with scraps saved throughout the year. The dogs and cats are so happy to have a nice comfy pillow/bed to sleep on. I have enough scraps stored in bags in my garage now for about 20 beds! Simple, fun and easy to make! And for such a good cause!
That’s so wonderful, perhaps you or A Quilting Life Crew could give more info, sizing, suggestions… on this project that seems really well received!!! Something to get the littles involved in too. Most everyone has or knows little people🥰
Thank you ❤️😀
Billie says there's no pressure making something for animals. Well, every time I start a cat quilt my cat Archie has to sit on it and look at me like "Hurry up and finish this for me mom!" So I end up letting him sit on one intended for someone else and then I gotta go wash it and get the fur off. I swear that cat is psychic!
Love these goal videos you post each year! They definitely inspire me and help me to move forward positively with new goals and to let go of the old! It made me think of something I heard once and always say to younger women in my life who feel like the need to do it all." You can do it all, but not at the same time!"
Can you please write out the Emerson quote or tell us where to find it? Thank you for all you and yours do to make our days brighter and hone our skills. 🌲Merry Christmas!
As a new quilter, I look forward to that January episode!
welcome new quilter its a magical world enjoy and the podcast from A quilting Life are super good.
I just saw the new fabric line and I couldn't be more thrilled for both of you... and for myself. It's gonna feel like forever before I can sew with this new fabric collection. But that gives me enough time to save up to buy a bunch. I Picked out 3 of your new quilt patterns to get me started. So excited. LOVE it.
Love these podcasts and the family dynamics
Chelsi, I was surprized you'd not heard of crumb quilting/crumb blocks! I know y'all stay so busy with designing, etc., I'm sure you may not have time for crumb sewing. I've been doing it for several years years now & it's so freeing & "mindless" sewing. Jenny Doan talks about doing this pretty much every morning just to get her juices flowing 😊😊 Billy-you'll come to realize that dogs LOVE quilts 💗💗 My Shih-Tzu would lay on any pile of fabric I had out while sorting it. One time a friend had acquired from someone else quite a stash of fabrics. She brought the sack over, we dumped it out on the living room floor to go thru it & there he was "helping"!!!
I love the print fabric in the sashing in the quilt on the wall. Enjoyed being with you!
Billie, every quilt is a real quilt. You sew, boy! I can hardly wait to see.
Not sure if you read the old episode comments, but one thing I do at the end of the year with each project I worked on through the year I make a little quilt from those pieces. Choosing a quilt pattern that can handle different fabrics. It brings to mind all those projects. Thank you for your podcasts. I feel connected instead of srwing alone.
I enjoy your podcasts. It always gets me excited to start new projects. Thanks for sharing your creative talents and skills.
I make kennel quilts from fleece, flannel & or quilting cotton. I use batting scraps inside or make beds using a pillowcase for scraps then make a separate cover for the whole thing for safety!
I am a brand new quilter and am so excited you will be talking to us. ❤️
welcome Joyfulily Justine new quilter -its a great magical world and Sherri and family are truly inspiring
So proud of you Billy with wanting to make quilts for animals! I have been watching for quite some time and love Sherri &Chelsea's videos. There is a veteran who has a UA-cam channel called the Quilting Marine, who makes crumb quilts and i think he would inspire you all even more to use scraps to make dog quilts.
I wish you all safe and happy holidays and am looking forward to Billy's quilting journey. You all have inspired me and i thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
I so love that quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is so true that we have to let things go sometimes and move on. I LOVE THAT! Thank you for bringing that quote to our attention. It's going to be my motto from now on! You three give me so much hope!
so much agree with you Gail great quote for year 2023 and each podcast i listen to gives me life
Love the animal quilt idea 👍
Oh and Billie you make a big impact on the presentations so you are amazing too !
I usually make pot holder from my spare off cuts. Kind of a reminder of the projects I have done…like a usable scrapbook.
Our Guild has everyone save their fabric scraps and make a dog bed at home which is donated to a shelter. I used upholstery fabric to make a pillow which I fill with scraps of fabric and batting 20x20. It takes me about a year to fill. Also I have been to retreats where someone brought a pillow case where everyone dumped their scraps to be used for dog and cat beds.
Mug rug or cat quilt. Lol! Awesome Billy!
Sherri I would like you to put a list of books that you were reading and your goals up. you are such an inspiration and I would like to read and be inspired and inspire others like you do please document the list
Give yourselves an A ladies because you both are so amazing!❤️
You ladies and gent are so inspiring. Thank you for all you share.🧡
Thank you guys so much for the inspiration. Absolutely love your channel. Love your patterns thank you thank you.
Hello Sherri, Chelsi and Billy, This is my second time watching this video, I feel it’s so inspiring I wanted to be reminded the things I felt would be good for me to include in my thoughts and goals for the new year, personal and my sewing life.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful videos. I am always learning, 🥰❤️👍 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, 🥰 Chris
Im behind of episodes but yes! I found out through my Quilt Guild to make animal beds from scraps... They instructed to use old pillow cases but I made my own because I wanted to make one with cute animal fabric (and to make different sizes) but they donate them to local animal shelter - it also helps the animal transition into their new home because it has a scent they are use to 🐾❤️
thanks for idea of how to use old pillow cases my motherinlaw left us
I love your podcast 👍😍 I am so inspired by the three of you. I am retired, but need to set some goals. … more reading is high on my list.
Goodreads is a great idea. My primary hobby is quilting, but I want to learn to knit next year. It’s portable and more gift options.❤
Thanks. 👍😍
I am so excited for the new collection!
I'm loving hearing Billie's excitement about future quilting ideas. I agree that when you have a reason to quilt, it makes it much more enjoyable. I've always had a favorite donation project that I enjoy working on. I've done many children's quilts for various organizations, and the last 18 years I've been engrossed in Quilts of Valor. After all, family quilts are wonderful, but when the family is "well covered," it becomes time to think of new reasons to quilt. BTW, our local animal shelter has said "no more dog beds" because so many of us have overloaded them! :)
Love this! Go Billy!!
Please do a segment on your channel where it’s the three generation of quilters. Sherri, Chelsi, and Ashton and it’s teaching Ashton how to quilt. I think it will help a lot of beginners ❤❤❤❤
Also tell about Sherri’s mom.
I bought the Cozy Earth sheets. They are good but pretty expensive even with the coupon.
As a working mom, I can say that I always felt that I was failing everyone: not giving enough to my family and not giving enough to May job. As a society, we need to move away from that.
From what I’ve read about behavior modification, it is absolutely critical that we experience success. Success gives us the energy to try again. Repeated success gives us the energy to try more. Therefore, goals should always be set to be achievable. Sure, 12 quilts in a year would be a great achievement for some of us, but getting to 12 quilts in a year requires the ability to do at least, say, 6 quilts a year. Once that has been achieved, perhaps 7 will be possible, and so on. We need to set ourselves up to succeed, and that will support our growth over time. (Yes, I know this, and yet I so often fail to follow this precept. Humans - we are so illogical!)
I’m so excited about your new quilt along for 2023. I love your fabric and patterns. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've had this pattern for a while now. I'm glad you're doing a sew a long with it. I have not made it because I was waiting for the Simply Delightful collection to come in.
Have you ever done a podcast or a video of how you design fabric?
Happy Christmas, Sherri, Chelsi and Billyl Thank you so much for all the interesting and enjoyable posts this year xxx
The Quilt Pattern magazine has a program to let people know what organizations need kennel quilts. They have patterns and examples. They are sent to areas that have been hit by a disaster.
Hello from Virginia Beach. Just now getting g a chance to watch this pod cast. I Love watching you 2. I miss my mom a lot it’s been awhile (2006) but I still miss her. Anyway you all are the best as is Billy. Billy and Chelsea need to do some tutorials together.
What happened to the double wedding ring quilt? I was hoping to follow along.
I love to take my quilt sandwiches, when trying to "perfect" my quilt designs, bind them & give them to my dogs. They love them. Thanks for all of the videos, patterns, and most of all, the laughs!!
I'm so motivated 🙌
Thank you both
I would L-O-v-E to see Billy's animal quilts. 🎉 🥳 🐶 🐱
There is an organization called Kennel Quilts where people make kennel quilts for cats/small animals who are impacted by hurricanes, weather events. You might check that out.
thank you so very much for your podcast and blog and emails it has brighten my days thur 2022 and added to what i think of quilting "its a magical world! " Looking forward to your special session. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to you all and also other people who comment
Cedar Hill Quilt Guild collects scraps at their retreats and makes dog beds for the shelters
I sure am hoping for the bloopers! I’ve been waiting. Your goals are amazing, all of you. Live Chelsi is being realistic for her season of life.💕
Your first episode of the year is my husband's birthday! 🎂 Looking forward to your live stream! Thanks to you all.
So my New Year's resolution each year is- BE A BETTER ME. This is so anyway I improve is attainable. It helps me be kind to myself. I will make lists of things because I work better with lists.
I make pet beds from scraps too! Looking forward to the Happy Go Lucky sew along. Already ordered the pattern, and can't wait for Simply delightful to ship. Wondering if I somehow missed the live stream with the new fabric line? Will it be posted on the channel eventually? Thanks!
I’m in the retired season, I raised 2 girls and a set of twin boys. And I know how hard it is to get time for your self with children.
To fill the dog beds you can also use the socks, that the dryer ate one of. Everyone or most everyone has that box of socks that are missing a partner.
Since reading is such a priority, what about starting or joining a book club? I can see myself doing that next year. 😊
Regarding reading: I’ve kept a list of all the books I’ve read since I was 16, I’m 67 now. It’s fascinating looking back to see my reading history.
I love the idea of making the dog beds for beginners! Might need to add that to my goals for next year! Loved the whole episode thank you!
Sherri, how is what you do a B-? You are amazing in what you get done! Thank you for inspiring me.
There's a book called NO SCRAP LEFT BEHIND that uses small pieces. I have two in the works.
Just listened to pod cast if you do dog beds ask the agency where you are donating, most of them do not want stuffing or polyester batting in them. Just so you find out do and don't s before
P.S. I couldn’t find the next show that was supposed to air on December 14th, 2022. I looked on the blog, through the shows on your channel at UA-cam, through all my incoming video and wasn’t able to find it.?. Thank you, 🥰 Chris
Billy is sooo awsome!!!
I would love to know the pattern of that scrappy quilt behind you!! It’s beautiful!
Another awesome episode - always look forward to "hanging out" with you all! Love the idea about pet quilts - a crib size is probably just the right size - maybe one of the smaller lap sizes for large dogs. Seems like a great way to use up smaller cuts of fabric and the perfect opportunity to try out Free Motion Quilting or some of the walking foot techniques along with using those left over pieces of batting (using batting tape to piece together small pieces into usable sizes).
I would love a Happy Go Lucky SAL in 2023!!
Animals totally feel. I work with a few rescues. All our animals are rescues too. I wanted to make dog beds but was told by a shelter here they cant use. I will ask a few more. I have been saving scraps for a while and still haven’t filled the one i started which surprises me❤
I didn’t even know there was a Facebook page! I just asked to join. If you want to grow the page maybe more publicity on the pod casts. Love your pod cast. Great job! 🥰
When I volunteered at the dog shelter, we would NOT take those scrap dog beds... the dogs chewed holes in them and made a mess... if they come open in the washer it jambs the pump
*DOG BEDS FOR VETERANS: my friend Jackie was a U. S. Marine 🇺🇸 Every year she participates in Stand-Down San Diego. This event is for homeless veterans, veterans at risk of homelessness or unemployed.
One of the things Jackie does throughout the year is make dog beds to gift to veterans in need that have dogs as companions. I save all my quilt scraps, clean old towels and t-shirts, sweatshirts, anything soft, etc (cut up) for her and I collect from others.
One idea I am currently working on was in a comment from Zane Ruby in episode 71. I have an old clean T-shirt hanging on my sewing chair and as I am working on blocks/quilts I place the cuttings and trimmings and smaller pieces of batting in the neck. When it is stuffed I’ll sew the neck up.
This was not the first time Vegas Val's home and sewing area have been mentioned. I would love if you could convince her to let you at least film her sewing area. This is a popular topic so I'm sure lots of people would be interested!
Have a good holiday plus a very good New year I hope to continue washing your popcast.
Please please "A+" s for all of you! All three of you are awesome and have delivered much joy to almost 100,00 people. 😍
Can I just adopt Billy as my nephew? Love his comments!😍
You go Billy
I really want to make a pet bed. How small do the scraps need to be? Do you quilt through it like batting? Or is it more like stuffing? Let’s sew along.
Maybe Billie can be a pattern tester for my small animal quilts. I have lots of original designs. I keep meaning to put them out.
I heard you mention a Happy Go Lucky Sew Along. I’m excited about that! Is it already planned with dates, or is this just in the planning stages? I ordered my pattern before I knew about the sew along, but haven’t picked out fabrics yet.
I’m doing the smaller hexi 3/4 in. Try it it’s supper fun and pretty
Iam getting ready to retired in a few weeks so. I will be more active in here and sewing alot.
Have you ladies read anything by Kate Quinn? She is my new favorite author! The Alice Network, The Huntress, and The Rose Code are great reads!
What are the quilts on the ladders, where can I get the patterns and what fabric collection are they made of.
What is the pattern behind Chelsi? That is beautiful.
Why is that as women we are so hard on ourselves. We multitask on a daily basis. Just for that give yourselves an A+.
Was the livestream of the new fabric line recorded, and if s, where can I find it please? I was not able to watch it live.
We will be publishing the recording this Friday, 12/23/22. We were allowed to do the livestream last week but we could not release the recording until this Friday. Hope you enjoy seeing the new quilts!
Please let us know what you are doing for 2023 so we can join in!
I see a new UA-cam podcast… Quilting with Billy!
@Chelsi - Middle Aged???
Everything else is great! Currently work on quilting goals.
My quilting guild makes dog beds for the local animal shelter.
Is the sweet quilt piecing?
I feel like I have joined to many sew alongs and feel overwhelmed to keep up. I have all the patterns printed out from 2022 but have only done one quilt block. I have no idea on how to keep organized to be able to complete any one of the six sew alongs and now with all the new 2023 sew alongs coming out….I feel wow this is way more than I can ever complete at my age. I have also picked up cross stitching and now I have fifty six starts in progress and have only got three completed. I love everything and love doing it all but the pressure has overwhelmed me. Any suggestions on how I can try to stay focused especially since life sometimes have other plans. I think I really need some help. I do have so much fabric to be able to finish all my quilt alongs. I have stopped buying fabric because I have literally filled six very tall book cases full and that is not counting the four plastic huge totes full of backing material. Please help.
I know this feeling. I’m putting 2 years of blocks together to catch up. Your not alone
My suggestion would be to pick out just 2 of the Quilt Alongs - one that is easy for you in skill level and has fabric and pattern you enjoy. For the second one, choose one that has fabric you love but stretches your skills or is a pattern/blocks that you have not done in awhile. You can alternate between the two, depending on your time, energy and mood.
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Billy you can't give yourself an F - the window closed due to no fault of yours! That is way too harsh
You should wear your pajamas for the podcast.
Wow, you guys are way too hard on yourselves grade wise. With all your accomplishments where does that put the rest of us? Maybe it’s because I’m not such a big goal setter. Be nice to yourselves, you all are phenomenal!!!
yes please remove the color GREEN uggg makes me wanna throw up
❤ I am so excited to see the new fabric🪡🧵