A Lovely Year of Finishes ... and a few Failed aLYoF Goals

As part of A Lovely Year of Finishes, I set 11 monthly goals and managed a lovely finish for 8 of them.

1. January: April-December Romance, 2. February: A Whole Lotta Love,
3. March: Cock-a-Doodle-Tea Towel, 4. April: Finding My Way,
5. May: Checkerboard Picnic Quilt, 6. Tweet - July's Lovely Finish,
7. September: Ring Around the Lone Star, 8. December: Holiday Stripes
9. #aLYoF 2013 Logo

To make it easy for the Lovely Ladies behind the Lovely Finishes challenge here are the specific blog posts that I linked for each of these finishes:

January:  January's Lovely Finish
February: Ta Da!
March: Cock-a-doodle Tea Towel
*April: April's Late but Lovely Finish
May: Ready for a Picnic
July: Tweet
September: Ring Around the Lone Star
December:  Holiday Stripes

*I missed linking April's finish in time (because I forgot April doesn't have a 31st-doh!) so it doesn't actually count for the challenge even though it was done and I personally count it as a lovely finish ;-)

Of my three #aLYoF "failures," two were stalled while I considered design decisions: one was finished as a goal for a later month, finishing the other may become an early 2014 goal.  The third was layered and basted and probably could become a finished mini-quilt in an afternoon, maybe  by year's end.

1. June: Stalled ..., 2. August: Flying Geese assembled,
3. October: Mini Maple Leaf Quilt

I like that I ended up choosing a combination of new and old (in some cases, very old) projects. I plan to continue the same mix and the Lovely Finish habit in 2014.