Found a post I never published from last August 2013. "A Day Late and a Dollar Short..." Now it's time to create my UFO project list for 2014, since the first quarter is over... Nah. This will do. It's probably the same list!
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@)!# (Haha, oops - I first typed the numbers 2013 with the shift key down - had to fix that!). Yeah, dang UFOs, why can't they just get finished all by themselves??
So... It's time to fess up. I didn't create an actual 2013 UFO List. I stopped counting last year at 87 UFOs, and only completed four from that list, so it's pretty much the same. But I did make at least one brand new quilt:
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| VIVIENNE'S JOURNEY |
It is a little discouraging to see that there's not much of a dent in the UFO pile. Besides. It's been quite a full first part of the year, with a move across town, the passing of both my father, then my husband's father two months later, estates to divide and settle, lots of quilting events and travels, including a 10-day choir tour; quilting for clients, designing projects for Riley Blake fabrics, choir practice two to three times a week, throw in a family reunion or two, and a couple weeks of 4-H Quilt Camp sessions.
And, as far as quilts go, everyone around here has a quilt or two on their beds, (some that my girls have made for themselves), we decorate with a few quilts on these tall walls, everyone's got their very own lap quilt or two, or three, and I've made a table topper for every season or mood imaginable. But that doesn't stop me from designing or dreaming about new quilts.
And, as far as quilts go, everyone around here has a quilt or two on their beds, (some that my girls have made for themselves), we decorate with a few quilts on these tall walls, everyone's got their very own lap quilt or two, or three, and I've made a table topper for every season or mood imaginable. But that doesn't stop me from designing or dreaming about new quilts.
And now it's August.
I have finished one UFO from last year, a Lap Quilt for my daughter Lauren.
Lauren helped to make this before she left for Japan on a church mission for a year and a half. In the sashing I quilted her name, the name of the cities she lived in, and the names of her missionary companions. Then I quilted Japanese symbols for Faith, Hope, Charity and Love.
I've also made and finished a couple of small quilts:
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| BULLSEYE BABY |
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| HEXAGARDEN This is my only entry in the County Fair this year, but it won a blue ribbon! |
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| TECHNO-TAG Scannable Quilt |
A few weeks ago, my girls decided to move my sewing room to the basement. Yup, while I was away. Now it's time to take a good look at these projects and be realistic. Will I ever get these made? Is it time for a Quilter's Yard Sale? Should I sell them on Ebay? Do I save them for a rainy day? For my kids' inheritance? She who dies with the most fabric...
So this year's next year's today's list will include the new tops, and maybe a couple from last year's list.
2) A Country Star ?? HUH? I'm not sure what this one is, but I do have a big block star quilt on the longarm right now. Quilt, bind. I'll count that one as WORKING ON IT.
3) Bloomin' Garden Blossoms - Quilt, bind.
4) Hexie Meadow Move sun, replace dark patches, quilt, embellish, bind. DONE, and PUBLISHED... and (!) ON THE COVER of Quiltmaker Magazine May/June 2014!!
5) Drunkard's Path Topper Piece - Quilt - Pick out - re-Quilt - Bind. Sewn together and QUILTED - Now I have to unpick and REQUILT. Tried a new style of quilting, and I didn't like it! RE-DO!
6) A Carpenter's Wife. I loved making this one. 2 yds background, 1 layer cake, then throw on some borders. It's just waiting for the longarm quilter... Quilt, Bind.
7) Buggy Barn Witches - Locate backing (it's around here somewhere), Quilt, Bind. Love these cute little witches on brooms, feet dangling off... DONE!! Even put on a Faux Binding. Look for the Tutorial soon!
8) Friends for Christmas (this one's been on the list for 8 9 years. Maybe this year?) YES!! QUILTED, BOUND - but still need to EMBELLISH! Hopefully before Christmas 2014!
9) Endless Chain (still a WHIMM=Work Hidden In My Mind) Test out using a tumbler for this antique pattern, collect fabrics, piece, applique' centers, quilt, bind.
and... maybe...
10) A wedding quilt?? Well, how's this? My daughter and I made a TARDIS QUILT for her fiance'. He's now her husband. I call it DONE!
More than likely, Numbers 1-5 will still be there on next year's list. Maybe the entire list will remain the same for 2014. See, I got to half of them! So... here are a few more to add to my list. They may or may not be actual UFOs, but goals, nonetheless:
Pixellated Chevrons with Thimble Blocks - design, write pattern, piece, quilt, bind.
Zoom Quilt with Thimble blocks - 2 color? Scrappy? - design, write pattern, piece, quilt, bind
Pineapple Hexagon with Thimble Blocks
Around the Block - center block, pieced. Working on the pattern still, but it will be live soon! Finish piecing, applique' quilt, bind.
Write up pattern and remake quilt for a few previous HMQS Design Challenge Winning Quilts:
Isabella's Bonnets - write pattern, piece, applique', quilt, bind. Use Downton Abbey fabrics?
Wrapped Up in a Quilted Past
Blossoms and Beyond.
Small Town Quilt Show - Write pattern (paper-pieced houses?), piece, applique', quilt, bind.
For now, I'm giving myself permission to enjoy the process.
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