20080630 - Finished Projects

Last week I took my UFO (UnFinished Object) list to my quilting groups hoping that sharing that list would provide me with a kick in the Ass to finish some projects. It did, and last week I finished 4 Charity Quilts. Now in all honesty some of them did not have a lot left to do but… I had not done it.


This is the oldest quilt in the group. I got the blocks as an unfinished quilt from the Voyager scrap box 2+ years ago. Someone had started the quilt, cutting the nine patch blocks and sewing about half of them together in this basic design (without the solid blocks). I did not like the shape of the quilt (almost but not quite on-point) so I added the solid squares and the corner pieces to make a square quilt with a floating center. The top was finished some time ago but I procrastinated about making a back (it was too large for a single piece of fabric), making the sandwich and on the quilting. Part of the delays in quilting was due to the idea in my head that I had to free-arm quilt it. I decided to do straight quilting with a serpentine-like stitch and I liked that look so well I did rest of these same way. This quilt has been sold to give the quilting group some money to buy batting for future charity quilts.


This quilt is another of the older quilts in my UFO list. The Quail Creek Quilters made the Noah’s Arc blocks almost 2 years ago. I took them home to put them together. It took me a long time to come up with the ocean waves design of the alternative blocks and an even longer time to make those blocks. And then it waited in my UFO box to become a sandwich and be quilted.


This was a fun little quilt I have not had for very long. Someone in the Quail Creek group made a quilt with the little horse squares and had 12 left over. I took the 12 and added some bright nine patches and ‘Viola’ we have a cute little child’s quilt. I have had the top, back and binding in the UFO box for a while but now it is quilted and finished.


This is the youngest quilt of this group. When I finished the brown quilt above, we liked the design so much that a group of us decided to make something similar. One week we made a group of Nine Patch blocks. The next week we cut them up to form these blocks. And the third week we made 6 quilts, each with a different solid. I got the peach one to put together and quilt. I built my center a little differently and I did not end with my signature bias stripe but I like the results. And it so nice to have finished these quilts.