JJBlaine

As usual, the posts on this thread are a huge inspiration to keep plugging along on my own UFO's. Thanks to all for sharing--I get such pleasure from reading about everyone's progress, and especially seeing pictures of finished UFO's.

I can finally claim two UFO's done! My reversible Double Irish Chain and my Ohio Stars (posted on this thread) are all now one completed, reversible quilt. The Ohio Stars has been a UFO for at least 15 years, and the Double Irish Chain started as a bunch of 4 patch leaders and enders from about 3-4 years ago. Between design changes and issues with my machine, I almost thought I would never get it finish, lol!

I also have my Oklahoma Twister quilt top pieced. It was a small lap-sized floppy, but I decided to make it bigger, so I ripped off the borders, made more blocks, and enlarged it form 9 blocks to 20. Unfortunately, the floppy was stored in a box unwrapped, and the extra fabric was in a ziplock, so there is a noticeable color difference on the neutral fabric. I'm crossing my fingers that it is just dust, and will come out. I have it soaking in some oxyclean now.

For my next UFO, I pulled out what was supposed to be 12" pinwheels in solid black and a lovely brown print. It was just a sketch, a partially pieced sample block, and a huge stack of cut triangles.
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While it looked okay, I wasn't thrilled with the black/brown combo, nor with the idea of giant pinwheels. I decided to cut up the brown triangles, and use a different brown fabric I picked up earlier this week to make smaller pinwheels, so I'm working on these.

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I haven't settled on a layout yet, but I'm thinking I may set them on point. The black triangles are back in the UFO pile until I can come up with an idea for them..

Teen

Great job, JJ... Your smaller pinwheel block reminds of the block called Broken Dishes. Maybe googling that will help with a design layout. I like the new block colors....very cool..

Rose_P

Facepalm: I just remembered why that disappearing 4-patch became a UFO. I had figured out that if I made one more row of those easy blocks I would have a quilt that would fit a queen bed nicely. I just didn't feel like doing it at that time (6 years ago). Of course, now that it's finished in its original skimpy size, that will never happen. Sigh. I'm mentioning this as a hint if others are looking at something they put aside, to ask yourself some questions before leaping right in. Whatever stopped you before might not seem so daunting now, but you do have to remember what the heck it was.

It's nice to pop in here and see all the great work that gets done. Way to go and keep it going! It's inspiring! I have to admit I seem to have created another UFO last week. It's a center medallion and I don't know what I want to put around it yet. Someday it will speak to me. Meanwhile, I made a little quilt from some stray blocks that were given to me. Not a UFO of mine, but it seems like progress of a sort, and it will be donated to pay forward a nice gift of fabric and stray blocks from someone on Nextdoor dot com.

I have several more UFO's that need doing, but what is beckoning is a scrap project that I can easily justify because in addition to making quilts and UFO's I've been a regular scrap factory for several years. In addition to that, the Nextdoor pal gave me lots of blue scraps to go with my own and there's a quilt hiding in there somewhere, I just know it. I promise to get back to the UFO's eventually.

oksewglad

RoseP, I love your thinking and I so understand, those quilts lurking in the scraps! I finished the little mini flimsy tonight and when I all finished with it, it will be a completed UFO. Those little 4P (from gifted fabric) have been hanging around for at least 3 years. And guess what I found some more 4P's the same size while digging tonight. I'll try to get that one fun and done, too. Not sure how many there are in this batch.

Teen I have used EQ for several years and enjoy using it. I did not upgrade to EQ8 as I felt I have what I want in the EQ7 program. I know I don't use it to its full potential.

JJB...Yes we need to rethink the original project and decide if we want to continue in that direction.

cannyquilter

Happylab thanks for the heads up re VQW. I'm moving my sewing room this weekend so won't get much machine sewing done but I have a Christmas decoration from two years ago which just needs hand sewing plus I could work on my QAYG samples quilt (over 5 years on the go but who's counting).

Teen

Mystery clue comes out tomorrow so going to work on that. Need to get my taxes organized for next week's' appointment and get us ready for a short 2-day trip to Laughlin, NV. Getting away for a couple of days with BFF's...gamble, eat, and be merry.....did I say gamble? Show me the money...mama needs a new pair of shoes (and any sewing notion available)

cherrybsixty

I love VQW, thanks happylab for reminding us of it. I got lots of work to do. I haven't been able to sew for a while around here. All three of my domestic went down at the same time. But two of them went to the OSMG and their stitch is as pretty as ever. I can get back on track. so very glad that I will be able to sew.

Cherry

rryder

Hey all,
I found a piece that just needed to be bound... It has lingered on the UFO stack for about a year because I couldn't figure out what to do with it. It was an attempt to do a whole cloth mini out of a flimsy slinky and slippery satin that came from my grandmother's house. I used the framework of Lisa Calle's design from her whole cloth mini class on Iquilt. Because of the slippery nature it was very difficult to work with, almost impossible to square up for binding and I decided to just finish it by overcasting the edges and calling it a sample. Any way, it is done and no longer on the UFO pile YAY! very difficult to photo also because it's so shiny---note to self, never ever use this kind of material again without heavily stabilizing it first LOL!

Rob

Mariposa

Wow Rob! Nice work on your "sample"! Neat that you now have a pretty treasure from Grandma's stash~

Sync

Wow, nice work Rob. Mini or sample it looks great.