As you can see from my previous blog posts, I have been sewing and making progress. Still, these seem to be new projects, so I thought I would inventory my UFOs and see what I was facing. One year (1996, I think) I buckled down and worked only on UFOs and finished 9 quilts. That was a record. Most, if not all, were already started and I didn’t quilt them all, but causing them to be quilted counts for something in my book.
This list in no way implies that I will discontinue starting new projects or finish any of these.
Here is my list of UFOs. You can see many of them over at Artquiltmaker.com.
- Bullseye: finally found directions for doing the border the way I want it. Just need to do it
- Garden from Pamela Allen class
- He Tried to Make it Up to Her: needs back and to be quilted. St. JCN has to dig it out.
- Her Eyes were Bigger than Her Stomach: needs a back and to be quilted. Very active quilt; probably not my best design, but a mile marker in the quiltmaking journey.
- Kissy Fish: ongoing hand beading project
- Leaf quilt: needs something that I don’t have; candidate for abandonment; sad, though, because it is a friendship quilt
- Nosegay: top complete
- Pointillist Palette 4: Night
- QA Challenge Quilt: need to fuse the parts and rubber stamp the words.
- See: started in a David Walker class. Needs fusing, stitching on of fused pieces and quilting
- Self Portrait from Pamela Allen class
- Serendipity Puzzle: on the design wall now. Five more blocks to piece.
- Sharon’s quilt: blocks must be sewn together. After Serendipity Puzzle I will finish it. I don’t want a wedding quilt to be hanging around when a baby is due
- Solid Star Friendship Quilt: need more friends so they can make stars for me in solids with black
- Spiderweb: foundation pieced project, still piecing. Need to create the templates for the border blocks
- The Tarts Come to Tea: need inspiration. Improvisational quilts are not the same experience when you do them alone
- Thoughts on Dots: top complete
- Women’s Work 2: needs focus.
Just for fun, here are the quilts on my mind. In some cases I have purchased fabric, but no sewing has been done, so they are not yet UFOs.
- Denyse Schmidt Chocolate Boxes: see the post from August 11, 2006 to see the fabrics I will use.
This a pattern that can be purchased from Quiltworks Northwest.
- San Mateo County Fair Dot quilt
- Paper pieced Nativity scene: I downloaded this pattern when it was free a few years ago and have never gotten up the energy to be as organized as I need to be to make this, but I still want to make it. You can find the pattern at Paper Panache.com
- Interlocking triangles #4: love the techniques and have at least one, if not two, idea[s] for more
- Dot quilt with inset circles a la Ruth McDowell: more uses for dots and a good exercise in piecing
- Feathered Star dot quilt from Summer issue of Quilts & More: more use for dots
- Cross quilt: totally scrappy except for middle and background. I would also like this to be a handwork project that I can carry along with me.
- Some kind of pink quilt with all the pink fabric I have been buying
- Colorblocks 3: I want to use this pattern from Sandy Bonsib, but have silk fabric with a lucious sheen instead of the regular cottons. Background will be cotton sateen.
- I Spy quilt for DS: hexagons and many of the triangles are cut. I just have to start piecing them. St. JCN comes to the rescue as she cut a zillion of the pieces.
- Garden Quilt: I have been collecting photos and patterns of interesting flowers for years and have always wanted to make some kind of garden or flower quilt.
- Jack’s Chain: I saw a quilt of this pattern years and years ago and have always wanted to make one.
