Jennifer22206

My oldest UFO is probably only about 7 years old. It's a red and white single Irish chain quilt I started piecing when my husband and I got engaged. We'll be married for 5 years this coming February. It's a California King size quilt, I just didn't quilt it yet.

N.J.linda

25 years, I finished an around the world quilt then jumped into a a pink and blue thingy, don't even remember the pattern. I put the blocks into rows, but the seams didn't match up and I never bothered to take it apart. I couldn't bear to get rid of it, since it would have been my second project.

neonparrot

We moved from Ohio to Alabama in 1988. I packed several UFO's and brought them down to AL. Give me credit that I at least unpacked them and put them on a shelf in one of the closets in my sewing room. I know I took a quilting class in Brecksville, OH around 1974-75...and still haven't finished it. And, there is an applique quilt I started before that class. Time kinda flies by, doesn't it.

brushandthimble

Mine is from 2000, 10 years and counting:)

Tennessee Suzi

I have 5 quilt tops that I pieced with the help of my GM when I was 8 years old. They were pieced on a hand crank toy sewing machine. I just finished quilting the first one and am so happy I kept them all these years.(I am 64 now). Of course there are many mistakes in the work but I decided to leave them as they were pieced instead of taking the top apart and fixing the mistakes. The second one is on the frame now. BTW the first one quilted was my first experience with a longarm quilter!

NEVER GIVE UP!!!

swizzy

We have a quilt hand pieced by my husband's grandmother in the 1930 -50's. It is Grand Mothers Flower Garden with the little diamond shaped pieces surrounding each flower. I quilted some of it in early 2000 but pieces are so tiny and hard to quilt that I had put it away. This fall I found someone who wanted to complete the quilting . What an angel she is to help us in getting it finished.

quiltbible

I have to admit, mines is the first quilt I pieced back in 1996 (14yrs). I do pull it out from time to time thinking I will finish it. Well back in the closet it goes every time. :mrgreen:

tea

funquilter

I have one from 1975. I was first year of college and it was a full size cross stitch of sunflowers. Someday I may finish it!

GloBug

I'm ashamed to admit I have a broken star that I started in1986 I have it about half quilted. It is entirely done by hand,no machine piecing most of was done in the front seat of a pickup.
some what of a challenge.
Happy quilting

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judi wess

I think the oldest UFO in my possesion is one I decided to finish that my mom started in 1947. By the time I was old enough to notice, my Mom was too busy to do handwork. I wish I had seen all the lovely linens she did while she was still with us.
The two quilts am proudest of took 14 and 15 years to complete. The old story of I can't look at this one more day, then drag it out later and work on them some more paid off. If I had just kept on working on them I wouldn't have liked the finished product.