Design Wall Monday (or Tuesday)

This is a quilt I am making for my Mom. I am hoping to be able to quilt it on my home machine. My only problem is my very small throat plate and I am hoping the quilt is not to big for it.

January UFO Challenge

The stack of lonely blocks.

 Judy with Patchwork times is doing a UFO challenge (UnFinished Object). She picks a number and then that month you have to do the project you had listed with that number. This month I was very good at finishing my project, just not so good about blogging it at the beginning of February. My project was a bunch of blocks from 2007 a group of online friends and I did. I was not much of a quilter back then and so I set them aside having no idea what to do with them.





I was able to quickly get the blocks set and quilted it on my home machine.

The finished product

We ended up hanging above our TV. My husband even painted the wall behind it so that it would not blend in. Of course he wanted it turned on its side, so the words I quilted into it (love, hope, faith, friendship) are all on their sides. What can you do?

Design Wall Monday: A round robin

Our Quilt guild is doing a round robin. I have never done one before, but I am very excited for it. I love bright colors, so this is my middle.

On another not, a few days ago, I was sewing along when my machine froze up. I was a bit panicky, but was able to ask around and figured out my problem and was elated when I was able to fix my machine. It's now purring like a kitty.

Design Wall Monday: Paper piecing

 These are blocks I am working on for a paper pieced quilt. It is one of my UFO's, for the UFO challenge, but they are going to take a while so I am working on them as I go along. When their number comes up then it will be ready to be put together. So is that really a UFO or is that a WIP?

 I have more blocks done, but don't have pictures of them.
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I Love this bird. I can't wait to start the red one.

Design Wall Monday: A UFO

So the beginning of the year number five of the UFO projects (see the last post if you have no idea what I am talking about) was chosen. It was my stack of six inch blocks that were made in 2007 from a group of my letterboxing friends. Way back then I had no idea how to put them together. I had no idea what sashing was and my block was one of the very funky ones. Now that I have been quilting for a while I am glad to finally get these together. Now I just need to quilt and bind it and I will have one less UFO. YAY!

UFO Challenge 2012

Judy at Patchwork times has challenged us to get at least one project done a month. So here are my twelve.

#1 My first project for paper piecing was a quilt from Linda Hibert. I have all of the pieces now and just have to get them all done and put together.

#2 My civil war Quilt. This one was started over a year ago as a block of the month. A lot of us got stuck on month seven. The only thing left for this is Quilting binding and a label.
#3 My mom finished these house blocks and then gave then to me to put into a top. I just need a border quilting, binding and label.
#4 These Dresden blocks were started YEARS ago. When my kids were very little. It's time they get into a quilt and are done.
#5 These are small little blocks a group of my internet friends and I did. They have been waiting for some time to be put together. I think I will make them into a small wall hanging.
#6 These were from another internet group. I need to put my jars on a shelf.
#7 This one needs a border and quilting.
#8 These blocks are for the American Beauty. My mom started them and then gave them to me to finish.
#9 This was a block of the month and just needs to be quilted bound and labeled.
# 10 Same thing with this one.
#11 I will have the border on this one this afternoon and then it needs to be quilted bound and labeled. (I decided against the sequins).
#12 This is another one my mom gave me to finish. I just love these colors.
I really thought I would have to search for unfinished projects, but unfortunately it was easier than I thought. I really hope I can get all of these done this year.