Happy New Year! I wish you a 2025 filled with happiness, health, strength, and confidence. May your wishes come true, and may you start each day with new energy and a smile. Here’s to a year full of successes and beautiful moments!
And if you love a Quilter Oracle. Go check out the 2025 edition ;)
But before I can really start the new year. Let’s take a look back at 2024.
2024
Review
Sewing goals for 2024
mellmeyer.de goals for 2024
Additional goals for 2024
Personal goals for 2024
Wouldn’t it be awesome if your brains automatically focused on the positive things? Did I accomplish everything from my list in 2024? No! And that is okay. But I did get a lot of things done while also navigating a big challenge with my job change. The latter did stress me A LOT before and at the beginning of the new phase, which resulted in a lot of emotional eating and skipped workouts. But I am loving it now, so I am hopeful for healthier habits in 2025.
I am also proud to have implemented the lessons from the last years. I had the mystery sew-along prepped in advance, which made it a “no-pressure” pattern release. It felt so much better this way, affirming my belief in only announcing fully prepped patterns/events.
2025
#2025QuiltingPlanningParty
Sewing goals for 2025
- Enjoy!
- Get the WIP list down to 3-6 projects
- Reduce fabric stash
mellmeyer.de goals for 2025
- No-pressure pattern releases
- Update all patterns to matching style
- Translate all patterns to German
Additional goals for 2025
- Host another Advent Calendar Swap
- Host another Mystery Sew Along as an Advent Calendar
Personal goals for 2025
- Get back to a normal weight
- Get into a fitter state
- Add 1,000 Euro to the emergency fund
“No-pressure” will be the guideline for 2025. I want to work on my sewing attitude, focusing on joy and choices. I would love to get WIPs down and reduce fabric stash but only if those further my main goal.
I will not announce any new patterns, sew-along, etc. before they are ready so that I can enjoy my shop side of mellmeyer.de with “no-pressure”. I did have a lot of fun with the advent events and plan to organize them again. So let’s hope I can get them prepped in time ;)
What I want to focus on is my health! Losing weight on my way to a healthier figure, working out to get fitter, and doing mental work will be a high priority. I am already working on designing positive affirmation cards to retrain my brain to positive thinking and gratitude.
So let’s take a look at what I accomplished in 2024 before I list my current WIPs to have a baseline for 2025 ;)
Best Nine
As is tradition we have the “official” Best Nine (only adjusted to exclude last years Best Nine) and my additional version. This time to add the other projects or events that stand for my 2024. A few of those pictures did not even make it onto the blog or Instagram … #ItIsWhatItIs
Overall it felt like I did publish as many IG posts during the 24 days of Advent as during the rest of the year… #ItIsWhatItIs
I started with some “Good Luck Pigs”, managed two finishes Halloween Plaid-ish & Baby Star Toss, started designing the next pattern Cabin Flower, and stalled… The Halloween Choin Quilt was my just-for-fun project to discover my sew-jo again. Unfortunately, though I enjoyed the process I disliked what it became. So I started another just-for-fun project Tambo Star ;)
I prepped Merry Mix behind the scenes and enjoyed Advent on Instagram. For the physical swap, I sewed a Family Tub basket for my swap partner. Speaking of gifts, I also sewed 20-ish coaster for my old colleagues including a self-designed anker. And since I have started quilting Meadowland.
Including the vacation in Malaga – oh how I loved the sun and pool time, the farewell breakfast and my new view from the job, I think this was 2024!
Well there is a bag missing that still hasn’t been photographed … #ItIsWhatItIs
WIP List
All my current projects
No. 1 – EADS Quilt
(since Q2/2018)
No. 2 – “Good Wishes”
(since Q3/2017)
No. 3 – “Add Jewels”
(Q1/2019)
PROGRESS
quilting started
No. 4 – All the Diagonals
(Q3/2019)
No. 5 – Tubes
(Q3/2021)
No. 6 – Tilted Tiles
(Q1/2023)
No. 7 – More Diagonals
(Q3/2023)
No. 8 – Star Toss I
(Q4/2023)
No. 9 – Cabin Flowers
This might be the next pattern :)
No. 10 – Coin Quilt
NEW
I need to find a new home for this one. It is not working for me.
No. 11 – Merry Mix
NEW
from the advent calendar sew-along
No. 12 – Tambo Star
NEW
Another “just-for-fun”. It still has a gazillion pieces. Will take a while ;)
No. 13 – Sew Together Bag
(not started)
A more than long overdue project. The recipient either forgot about it or calls me names by now.
I am happy I accomplished some goals. I am also disappointed that I did fail miserably with some others – hello, weight! But I get where it came from and I am very proud of taking this big step of switching jobs/teams. It was scary! Working through it and getting to the other side was also satisfying. And I already enjoy many of the new aspects. And the job itself is also great ;)
Now I am excited for 2025! I am sure it will be as life is – with ups and downs. Hopefully, there can be some focus on the positive things.
Best wishes,
xo Melanie
Linking up at
#2025QuiltingPlanningParty @ Quilting Jetgirl
You had a year and you did well. Changing jobs is a big shift and for those of us who eat our emotions, well weight happens. It sounds like you will have a great 2025….so here’s wishing you ease and grace and creativity as you move through it. And, the really good news is the oracle says “Your fabric will accept you” – who knew that was my problem LOL!
I think that if you have a goals list for a full year that you can accomplish fully in the first 3 months of the year, that you aren’t setting stretch goals for yourself. It’s okay to have a few that don’t get completed, and in fact I often learn or grow so much more from the things that I fail or don’t do than the ones that I can easily cross off a list. I hope that the growth and lessons from 2024 set you up for year of low pressure fun when you are quilting, and I hope you find a lot of joy in your creative pursuits this year!
You have some pretty heavy goals there, so give yourself some grace. ;-) So glad the new job is going well…hope that continues to be an encouragement in other areas of your life as well. One day at a time! Wish you the best. Oh and thanks again for Merry Mix. I loved it! Looking forward to doing some quilting on it this week!