I’ve written before about how I needed to make the designs for these yearly quilts as simple as possible in order to make continuing this project feasible. The 2017 quilt is a great example of that. I started the year with 4 goals:

exercise 250 times
host friends for a meal 6 times
make three quilts, start to finish
meditate 3500 minutes

I represented the completion of these goals with a percentage of a circle. That was my whole design for the quilt. But then there happened to be two other big things that took place that year: 1. We bought a house and moved, and 2. I went back to school. And I felt like I should get credit for those things, even if I didn’t fully complete my four goals for the year. That’s when I added the two big circles around the edge of the quilt.

This quilt measures 46” square. It was quilted by Nikki Maroon. Mitch Hopper took final pictures for me.