Rob, See what I mean...you’re work always amazes me. What a beautiful project and I think painting would be a fun challenge. Congratulations on a fabulous finish.

Thanks y’all. It was a fun BOM.

Rob

Rob, that is just gorgeous!

Not a finish, but still a step in the right direction...while I'm plugging away at piecing the WIP, I ordered batting and a nice flannel backing fabric for my Plaidish flimsy. I actually had a backing I had pieced from this and that from my stash, but winter is just making me crave cozy, and this is supposed to be a couch quilt for cuddling under, so I've ditched the pieced back and gone with flannel. Can't wait for it to arrive.

PiedPiper, I have a couple of quilting friends who are doing the "Plaidish" quilt. Love to see a photo when you are ready..

I downloaded the plaid ish pattern and added it to my list

I in this year. I have several UFOs I can chose from. But this month I plan to finish a blue and wine batik top I won several years ago. I plan to quilt and give to my brother. I will finish a lap quilt I partly quilted a year ago and was practicing my long arm skills and never finished. Finally quilt a panel lab (dog) scene top. That should keep me busy. I’ll post pics as I complete my projects.

Help! Please send motivation and or inspiration lest I UFO again.

Rule 1 for Quilts of Valor- if you are trying to honor someone's sacrifice don't give them something that looks like @$$.

I had alot of red white and blue scraps leftover from another project so I decided to try a QOV project. My odd sized pieces I crumb-ed together. I had some blue and white 4 patch with red surrounds I had orphaned from something else. I had some other blue white HSTs that i also surrounded to match style and size of the 4 patchs. I made some white w blue "spot in the middle" from some accidentally cut strips. So I had about equal number of 6.5 crumb blocks and organized blocks. The plan was to alternate so I would have strong red and white lines and crumbs in between.

It looked like hell. I spent 2 hours laying out, arranging, rearranging, taking pictures. I just wanted to cry because it was just so disappointing. I finally abandoned the crumb blocks and got to.something...tolerable....but just barely and I'm not really proud of it.

So I'm looking for some sympathy. Suggestions. Stories perhaps of your own struggles with crumbs, scraps.

(I'm trying to attach pictures as I know that will give more perspective on my tale of woe)

Rff1010- I’ve had lots of quilts that didn't go as planned, or didn’t look as good in real life as they did in my imagination. That’s when I take scissors or a rotary cutter to them and turn then into bits and pieces to use in art quilts- some of those don’t work out either- LOL. Anyhow, here’s a big virtual hug and some sympathy...

Rob

Rff1010: Sending more virtual hugs your way. So sorry it didn’t work out as you planned.