UFO Challenge

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, or holiday season, whichever you prefer.  Our little family had a great time and I will have more to share with you later.  With all the Christmas decorations put away and my house feeling a little more normal I am excited to get 2012 started.

This year I am participating in the UFO challenge from Judy's blog.  I don't know Judy, I just read her blog, but I love this idea about trying to finish up an old project every month.  I am really good at starting projects but I get bored after awhile and start something new.  Hopefully this will challenge me to get a few of my projects finished.  I am supposed to number each project and each month Judy will randomly choose a number and we will try really, really hard to get the project finished within the month.  A few of mine I am pretty sure will take a few months so I have assigned them two numbers.

Here they are in no particular order.

1.  Viola's Jewelry Box

       I designed this quilt top for the McCall's Design Star Challenge.  It just needs to be quilted, I have the back and batting.  I may try using my home machine to quilt it, but I'm not sure if I am that brave!

#2 & #3  My Tweets by Erin Russek
   
     This block of the month has now ended and I am very far behind.  Erin has the final quilt on her blog.  I can't wait to get it finished.  Take a look and imagine all the white parts in black, that is what mine will look like!  This is a little bit of what I have so far.

#4  Pieceful Garden

      I remember sharing a few parts of this quilt with you but I don't think I ever posted the finished top. I am not going to add a border because it is just the right size to hang in my entryway.  It just needs to be quilted, again I'm think I will be brave and quilt it on my home machine.  Ahh, Scary!!!

#5  Embroidery Envelope

     This little envelope is made out of wool and will hold spools of thread, needles, and other notions for when I am sewing on the go.  I completely forgot I had this until I was looking for UFOs.  It shouldn't take too long!

#6  Christmas Wall Quilt

     I started this cute quilt last Christmas but it never made it to the useable stage.  All it needs is a border (which I already have) and then to be quilted.  I am hoping it will be used next year!

#7  Christmas Countdown

     This little advent calendar just needs to be machine stitched around the numbers, Santa ironed on and make each piece into a little tiny quilt.  

#8  12 Days of Christmas

     Wow, I sure do have a lot of Christmas projects!!  I think it is because I get really excited about making stuff for Christmas and then I don't have as much time as I would like to work on them.  This is a kit I bought for 1/2 price after Christmas one year.  I would love to hang it on my wall next year.  It is much cuter in real life.

#9 & #10  Twisted Log Cabin

     I remember seeing this quilt on Simply Quilts by Alex Anderson many years ago.  I loved it and when it was offered as a class I jumped right on it . . .  in 2008!!  It is completely paper pieced and you have to have a roadmap just to make sure everything will fit together in the end.  Right now I have about 30/60 triangles finished. I would be happy if I just finished the top within two months.  

road map

a few of the triangles I have so far

 # 11  Dipped in Chocolate

     This is a lap quilt that is pieced and in the process of being hand quilted.  All the pieces are 3/4 inch finished.  I think I am about 1/2 way through with the quilting.

#12  Toulousse

     My final UFO is this quilt, Toulousse, which I think is a kind of duck?  Really I'm not sure but I think a duck had something to do with it.  Again, another Christmas themed quilt.  This is ready to be quilted but I am thinking of adding another border or two so it will fit my king sized bed.  I guess I will finalize when it is time to work on this one.

When I was finding all of my old projects it was kind of like reconnecting with an old friend.  I am excited to get started and hopefully finish quite a few!!