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.
I've also made and finished a couple of small quilts:
BULLSEYE BABY |
HEXAGARDEN This is my only entry in the County Fair this year, but it won a blue ribbon! |
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.
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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