2024 UFO Adventure Challenge
01-22-2024, 05:59 PM
#31
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Location: Cottage Grove, MN
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Dedemac: Very pretty test quilt. Your orphan blocks quilt was done just in time for the bitterly cold weather. I think the orphan block quilt tops take me longer than making a top from a pattern. 🙂. Although, I enjoy making them every once in a while.
Macybaby: That quilt is beautiful!
Macybaby: That quilt is beautiful!
01-22-2024, 07:11 PM
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2023
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Joining for this year! I have a lot of incomplete projects I am hoping to wrap up this year. I’m trying to find a balance between not having 100 WIPs but still allowing myself to follow my fancy on a given day/week. I guess this thread is good motivation to prioritize and execute! I simply can’t prioritize the whole list, so I’m just picking one top priority for now.
this is a lap quilt I make for my partner for our 14th anniversary last year (July- eek!). Top is all done and it needs to be sandwiched and quilted. Hoping to finish by the end of February. Then I’ll pick the next top priority!
this is a lap quilt I make for my partner for our 14th anniversary last year (July- eek!). Top is all done and it needs to be sandwiched and quilted. Hoping to finish by the end of February. Then I’ll pick the next top priority!
01-23-2024, 03:28 AM
#34
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I finished a huge (for me) collage top over the weekend and am so relieved. I had never done collage before and signed up for a class at our local LQS in October. I've been pecking away at the thing which has been on our guest bed ever since. I don't have room for a large design wall, and I'd like the bed back so I can lay out a few other projects! This is Laura Heine's "Birch Street." Still needs quilting but hope to get to that on my trusty Elna ASAP.
01-23-2024, 05:53 AM
#35
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I've got this ready for the hand embroidery and then on to quilting. It will look a lot better when the embroidery is done as that will fill in a lot of the open black areas around the blocks. I'm calling this "done" as far as it being a UFO. My son has already put dibs on it. Not only did this get a couple of UFO's out of the totes, it also used up a lot of batik scraps and chunks of black yardage leftovers.
Think I'll get working on the Nearly Insane blocks. it will be a good time of the year to be working with reds/pinks.
Think I'll get working on the Nearly Insane blocks. it will be a good time of the year to be working with reds/pinks.
01-23-2024, 06:28 AM
#36
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I finished a huge (for me) collage top over the weekend and am so relieved. I had never done collage before and signed up for a class at our local LQS in October. I've been pecking away at the thing which has been on our guest bed ever since. I don't have room for a large design wall, and I'd like the bed back so I can lay out a few other projects! This is Laura Heine's "Birch Street." Still needs quilting but hope to get to that on my trusty Elna ASAP.
01-23-2024, 10:34 AM
#37
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Location: South Dakota
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Thanks for the nice comments on my quilt - If it weren't for this thread it would all be sitting in boxes forgotten.
QuiltingPandaBear - that is a very nice lap/anniversary quilt. It's nice when our partners appreciate our efforts.
MKotch, love that collage quilt. I have to stop looking at it because the last thing I need is more ideas for starting something new! I'd love to make a collage quilt at some point, and I love houses too.
QuiltingPandaBear - that is a very nice lap/anniversary quilt. It's nice when our partners appreciate our efforts.
MKotch, love that collage quilt. I have to stop looking at it because the last thing I need is more ideas for starting something new! I'd love to make a collage quilt at some point, and I love houses too.
01-23-2024, 01:21 PM
#39
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Location: South Dakota
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QPB, I did up a template of the total size, then just started sewing pieces together to fill it in. Fitting pieces around the center blocks was the hardest part and required partial seams and a few Y seams to get it fitted. It works the same as a crazy quilt, only with black sewn along the edge before sewing pieces together. I used 3/4" black strips for this. I sewed them on one side, then used that seam as the guide for sewing the next seam. That way I got a more consistent 1/4" reveal.
