2016 UFO Challenge of the Month
#241
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Lynn Haven Florida
Posts: 179
Seeing all of your finished projects are very encouraging for me. Most of what I have are tops waiting to be quilted or blocks waiting to be tops I am hand quilter so I have a pretty big challenge on my plate. I am half way done with DGD's tee shirt quilt and am aiming to have it done by the end of the month. I have three more sandwiched and ready to go, so I am making progress. I will probably finish a few smaller projects next. Congrats to all who have made some finishes.
#243
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Lynn Haven Florida
Posts: 179
#245
Last year I referred to this as "UFO prevention", and posted a few of my new-ish projects here. I have a habit of jumping on board the various New Year's mystery trains, and if I don't have incentive to get those DONE, they'll just end up as UFOs at the end of the year so I use this thread to keep progress moving along on them too
#246
sweetwaterquilter, you are not alone, I'm also a hand quilter. Right now, I have my hubby's quilt in my Grace EZ3 floor frame. I wanted to have it finished by the end of Dec. but life got in the way.
#247
Ok.....so here is my problem! I have decided to do the fabric moratorium and have been cutting and sewing like mad to use my stash. Now I have one top that I finished just before the moratorium and one baby quilt top I finished a week or so ago and another baby quilt top I am almost finished with and two others I have started cutting out.....golly, gee whiz, with trying to decrease my stash when am I gonna have time to actually quilt them! (not to mention the others I have in various stages of completion in different areas of the house). Seriously, though, I guess I need to think about finishing one project before starting another one!
#248
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: NH
Posts: 645
. I know what you mean as many of mine are old, too. Over the summer, I went to the "deep" storage quilting area and in six hours I went through all my old stuff, deciding whether to finish, (a few), donate (many), or just throw out (some). I knew I wouldn't finish some and got them and the guilt out of here!! I kept only the ones I want to finish and am working everyday to get some done. I felt so guilty with all of the started projects, but my sweet hubby reminded me that all hobbyists have half- or unfinished projects. So I looked on those oldies but baddies, as lessons in sewing and quilting and in time management! Lol.
#250
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southeast Idaho
Posts: 3,208
AQ...I, too prefer to hand sew my second side of binding on. I do the first side with machine but the finished back side is hand sewn. I think it is very relaxing and if I have been really good and sewn my label into my binding, when I am finished with my stitches, my quilt is done.
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