MY OWN QUILT

I just finished this and don't ask, it's mine. I know, doesn't that sound greedy? Well I went from 10 years of quilting and owning 0 quilts to owning 5. As soon as the bargello comes off the frame I'll own 6. This started as a 4 patch posey pattern but the end result is my own. I made her squares but the rest of her pattern was unattractive, way too busy and a very confused pattern.

So I used the blocks and some cream triangles and designed my own finished design. I really like the outcome. I'll be using this on my red chair in my bedroom. Doesn't match the teal and brown going on the bed but when you love quilts, does that really matter?

FINALLY SOME THINGS ARE FINISHED

I think we all go thru periods where it seems like we're working but there are no finished projects to validate all the hard work. I finally have a couple finished and ready to go out the door. Or stay home, whichever may be the case.

This is a quilt for a fireman in Texas. After the wildfires a few months ago there were 16 firemen in one station that lost their own homes while fighting fires elsewhere. Of of the ladies in my online group asked for volunteers to make a quilt for each. I was lucky enough to get in on the project. It gave me a reminder how hard it can sometimes be to make a "manly" quilt. I gotta start buying more masculine fabrics for my stash.

ONE MORE OUT THE DOOR

This is another one off my UFO list. The only work I did on this quilt was the last round of flying geese. It's one of the round robin's from my Aussie group. Really came out pretty and it went out in todays mail.

Hard to see it all as the quilt was too big for us to hold the whole thing up. Each side of the last round has flying geese in different halloween prints.

SEEMS LIKE I HAVE NOTHING DONE

So the ladies and I decided to make a list of our UFO's (unfinished objects), our WIP's works in progress) and our PhD's (projects half done). I was stunned when mine listed out at 54. There were 62 as of October 1 but I finished several before we made our official lists. We have the choice how to work on them so I dedcided to start by due/promised date then do the easiest ones to finish and get off the list.


This week I've been working on yard work so not much accomplished. I did get to finish a round robin that was due out for October. This is not all my work. I only did the last round which is the yellow flying geese. The block is really fun to make). It's now on my NID (now it's done) list.

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