Design Wall Monday

Finally something new. I have been working on finishing projects that have been hanging around too long. I was using this project for leaders/enders. The pattern is called Fabulous Blues and is from Evelyn Sloppy's book 40 Fabulous Quick-cut Quilts.

Design Wall Monday

It's actually Design Table Monday. I couldn't put this up without disturbing something else. I am finishing this top I made two years ago. I want to hang it in a local show next weekend so I had to quilt it. Now i'm working on the binding and pulling in the thread tails. This will be my May finish in the UFO challenge. I have another quilt for the show but it's in the dryer right now. When both are finished I will take better photos.

Recovery Projects

This is what I've been working on while I recover from surgery, Churn Dash and Stars. I wish I could have made more blocks so the circular pattern would really show but I was trying to use blocks I had already made for another project that ended up a UFO. At least now it's finished. And I used up most of the fabric. I cut up the leftovers into 4 1/2" squares for the borders. That was the quickest way to finish. I will definately mke this pattern again.


This is my sample block for Making Ends Meet, a new pattern from Judy Laquidara. It's available free on her blog. I changed the colors from the original because I have no orange fabric and I was trying not to buy anything for this project. I only purchased the background. The star points will be scrappy greens and the chains will be scrappy purples. I may have to buy some purple for the final border. I'm not sure I have a piece bi enough. I'll worry about that when I get there.

February UFO/Monochromatic Challenge

My plan last month was to get this quilt finished, including quilting and binding, but the quilting gods were against me. I had such terrible problems with the thread shredding and breaking that I only got 1 1/2 rows quilted before I ripped it all out. I had this problem at the same time last year and I think it has to do with it being winter and the heater is on, drying out the air and thread. When I figure out how to "moisturize" my thread I will try again. The name of the quilt is Violaceous! I used an online thesaurus to find synonyms for purple and that was one of the suggestions.

January UFO of the Month

Instead of doing a block of the month, I am participating in Judy's UFO of the Month. When I counted up all my UFOs in December, I had more than 50. I divided them into two groups, projects that need to be quilted and all others. I decided to try to get one project from each group finished each month. I was chomping at the bit to get going on the UFOs so I finished some in December:

Cow Puzzle, African Animals, Funny Monsters, Broken Dishes, Oklahoma Stars (tops)
made backs for several donation quilts
Hungry Caterpillar, Completely Dotty (quilted)


My first finish in January was the 2008 2nd Saturday quilt. I finished making the top at 12:45am on January 1!


Also in January I quilted two donation quilts, a Red & White Irish Chain and a blue and brown quilt. Unfortunately I don't have photos of those. They are at Joann's house waiting for labels.

UFO Challenge 2011

My first finish for 2011! This was the block of the month at the local quilt store in 2008. The photo shows only half of the quilt. It is raining here so no hope of taking a picture outside in the morning. I'll get another photo after quilting.

Design Wall Monday 12-20-10

Here's what's up today: two UFOs I dug up while getting ready for the UFO Challenge. The top is an african animal print. Once I got started, the colors were so boring I lost interest. I'm going to finish three or six more blocks to make a baby quilt. The bottom looks like puzzle pieces. I love this quilt, I just have to finish the border and it will be ready to quilt. I noticed that most of my projects stall at the borders. Hmmm...I'll have to work on that.

UFO Challenge 2011

I'll be participating in Judy Laquidara's UFO Challenge 2011 over at her blog, Patchwork Times. Here's all my projects that aren't finished, in one big pile. Wow! It's a lot more than I thought. In "my quilting world", finishing projects is done in two parts: part one: making the quilt top; part two: quilting and binding. I have 27 UFOs (part one) and 24 tops ready to be quilting (part two). Some of these projects will be donations to the Valley of the Moon Children's Home or the San Antonio Childcare Center. No customer quilts are included in the above, these are only my personal projects. UFOs and Ready to be Quilted are listed in the right-hand sidebar along with Finished Quilts. I'll take photos of the individual projects and post as I complete them. I'm going to try to finish one project from each category every month. Wish me luck!