Our quilt guild is having a challenge this year! The one to finish the most UFOs by the end of the year wins! We had to turn in our lists of UFOs I had 29. The most in the guild- so I guess I'm set up to win if I can get my keester in gear.

Since you write the newsletter for the quilt, why not do an article on UFO's, and perhaps even do a UFO Challenge for your guild? That would do "double duty" as it were - give both you AND your guild inspiration to conquer some UFO's! You might even give kudos to our group here for a cumulative of well over 400 finishes last year. THAT'S inspiration!!

Several of us are striving for one per month for this year, including myself. That was my goal for last year as well, and I DID reach that goal... although I started the year off with a bang, and ended with a fizzle, I did manage a total of 12 finishes. And if you are like most of us, quilting is not the only craft we do - ANY UFO (crochet, knitting, etc.) qualifies - our focus is on FINISHING a project that has languished - forgotten, unloved, hidden away - and getting that puppy completed, some how, some way.

Good luck, and keep us posted!

I have two UFO's pulled out to work on. boy on the one I so did not have an accurate 1/4 seam its just a bit bigger and the blocks are 6.1/4 not 6 1/2. Of course I figured that out after I cut the blocks to go between so need to trim those down now. I am so used to using my new foot that these old blocks stumped me a bit. Awh well the things we do when we were learning.

Go, Sewlilly, Go!! We've got your back and will be cheering you on!!

JMoore and Patrice, those are BEEE-UUU-TIFUL finishes!!

I love seeing everyone's finishes - it really gets me stirred up to finish some of my own.

I got the commission quilt pieced last night - very simple, sort of like having a panel and adding borders - so it is ready to load right after customer quilt#2. Since the commission will be a panto, it's going to "break in line" ahead of customer #3, because #3 is a CUSTOM QUILTING job, and probably would eat into my deadline of "before Valentine's Day" for the commission quilt.

Well, my source for the critter patterns seems to have forgotten about me. I guess I'll go to Wally-World and see what I can find there to create my "patchwork teddy's" from the yardsale quilts. That would give me a couple of UFO finishes for this month, if I can hurry up and complete them.

<sigh> I'm jealous of hubby's retirement.... I'm definitely very thankful for my job, but truly... I'd rather be quilting. :)

Patrice, beautiful finishes.

Sure hope you'll post when completed (well somewhere on Board). I just LOVE your work always inspiring.

Patrice those are lovely. I have a feeling I'll be bookmarking more pages for future quilts than getting UFOs done this year at the rate of all these wonderful finishes.

Will do, Erin!! Thanks for the compliment - there are SO MANY wonderful quilters here, compliments from this group really means something!!

First Finishes of January 2017
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A snowman bookmark. Small but at least it is completed and out of the UFO pile.

Some great finishes. I've made a start on one of my UFO at my quilting drop in. My sewing room is such a mess I can't face going in to start working on anything. Plus my window is stuck in the open position and it is freezing in there.

Great Quilt everyone has done keep them coming know I need to get started on some of mine.