UFOs. Unfinishe objects in crafting circles. This year my quilt guild has a UFO challenge. We were invited to register our UFOs with the goal of completing as many as possible by the end of the year.
As there is no penalty for not completing a UFO, I registered 8 of them. I have a couple more which I didn't register that I really don't think I will get around to working on this year. The rules said you could't have worked on the project for at least 6 months. I was tempted to register my dogwood quilt since I had left it in Florida for 5 months, but wasn't willing to last out one more month to make it the required six months. Since I'm hand quilting, I wasn't about to let a month's worth of cooler weather pass by without working on it. Besides, I'm not sure if I will actually finish the dogwood quilt this year. I might, but then again I might not.
Now, added to the challenge of finishing UFOs, there is our guild service project this year: making twin sized quilts for the kids in the foster care system, many of whom are placed in foster care with few if any possessions. My personal goal for that is to make one quilt top a month for the service project.
And then there is the big girl quilt Lolly wants me to make for her. And my dream of working on a landscape quilt or two.
But, I have no time to be daunted by what I have set out to do. Instead, I need to get to work!
I have two quilts just waiting to be layered, quilted, and bound.
This photo was taken 13 months ago. In the meantime it has sat and waited.
This mini was made in May 2011.
This top was made at a workshop in late 2010 or early 2011. I miscalculated the size. I was trying to make a lap quilt, but it came out too large for that and too small for anything else. At this point I am planning to figure out a way to add some borders and hopefully including a border of pinwheels to make it twin size so it can be one of my charity quilts. There will be some serious math involved in figuring out just how to make the pinwheel border. So this project needs borders, layering, quilting and binding.
Then there is this Christmas wall hanging, which got this far in September 2011, which needs borders, then layering, quilting and binding.
This is a Hawaiian block to finish appliquing and is intended to be part of a baby quilt. Can you see the turtles and whales? I think I started this in 2010. I'm not sure if I'm going to do three more squares like this and then put something in the center or use this as the center and put other squares around it. I've actually started working on this one, as it is a nice, small, portable project, so it went to Quilt Bee last night.
A block of the month kit we got when Chase was working at JoAnn's. The original plan was I would piece it, she would embroider it and it would go to someone as a wedding present. I've pieced 5 blocks and embroidered 2 of a total of 12. It is no longer intended as a wedding present.
And then there is this pile of Blocks of the Month that I won at guild a year and a half ago. Not my favorite block and the fabric choices are all so different that I'm not at all sure what it will take to bring them together into a pleasing whole. Again, this is intended for our charity project.
Well, I thought I'd registered 8 UFOs, but at this moment I can't come up with the last two. I'll have to check at the meeting on Monday and see what the final number was.
