Wednesday, November 28, 2012

UFO #15:Hidden Star Quilt

 
This is one of those quilts that I saw and had to make.  The top was super fun to make and turned out great. I'm in love with the pattern.  It was made from a charm pack. I'm loving charm packs right now. I love that you can get a whole bunch of different fabrics to make a well matching scrappy quilt.
The quilt is backed with fleece.  It makes it a light weight, but warm and snugly quilt.
I started quilting this quilt months ago on my mom's new Singer Confidence Quilter sewing machine.  In the sashing I used the curvy stitch.  Unfortunately I didn't get finished and a couple weeks later the mother board on her machine failed.  Luckily it was still under warranty (by only a couple of days).  She waited months to get her machine back (a machine that she didn't really want back anyway).  Finally the people said they would just give her a new machine.   She told them she really didn't want that machine.  She was unhappy with it's features as well as the fact that it couldn't sew over a seam.  They said she could upgrade, but the dealer she bought it from didn't have what she wanted so they gave her her money back!  It was God sent that it all went down that way.  She was able to get a new even better machine!

Well, we both were. Hee, hee.  :0)  I'll tell you more later.  For now, I'll just say I was able to use my new machine to finish the quilting (it has a curvy stitch).
 

Not sure who this quilt is going to. Do you want it? Let me know.

Stats:
Started in 2010
Finished November 2012

Saturday, November 17, 2012

UFO #1: Beehive Wall Hanging

Technically this one is not finished, but it will never be finished.  Way back when I was a beehive in young women's, my leader put these together and taught us how to blanket stitch around the leaves and beehive.  From there we were supposed to finish it.  Well it has sat in a Ziploc bag and moved many times with me.  It is now time to go to it's final resting spot, the garbage.


I thought it is silly to finish it because it is not something I would ever use.  But here I will post it just so that I can remember it.

 Stats:
Started in 1997
Discarded in 2012

(Yes, I can be a pack rat sometimes, but I am getting better.)

Sunday, November 11, 2012

UFO #6: Thangles Quilt

Three years ago when I joined my first Quilt Guild, they taught us how to used Thangles.  Thangles are a paper piecing pattern that helps you make accurate half square triangles quickly and easily.  Thangles were super easy and fun to do.  Each month we received two new patterns to try using our Thangles.

At the end of the quilt guild year we ended up with 12 finished blocks.  I of course choose to put orange with mine.  For the most part I am glad I did it and was happy with how the blocks turned out.  However, this is not my favorite quilt.  There are blocks int there that I don't care for at all (patter wise).  And this was done when I was still a beginning quilter so my blocks are not as precise.

I decided to just finish it with a simple white sashing.  It turned out well enough.

I didn't want to put the time, money, and effort into fishing it so I gave it to my local Linus foundation where they will tie it and give it to someone in need.


 Stats:
Started in 2008
Finished October 2012

Size: Not sure, but about a lap sized quilt