View Single Post
Old 02-15-2018, 07:41 PM
  #401  
JJBlaine
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: California
Posts: 441
Default

As usual, the posts on this thread are a huge inspiration to keep plugging along on my own UFO's. Thanks to all for sharing--I get such pleasure from reading about everyone's progress, and especially seeing pictures of finished UFO's.

I can finally claim two UFO's done! My reversible Double Irish Chain and my Ohio Stars (posted on this thread) are all now one completed, reversible quilt. The Ohio Stars has been a UFO for at least 15 years, and the Double Irish Chain started as a bunch of 4 patch leaders and enders from about 3-4 years ago. Between design changes and issues with my machine, I almost thought I would never get it finish, lol!

I also have my Oklahoma Twister quilt top pieced. It was a small lap-sized floppy, but I decided to make it bigger, so I ripped off the borders, made more blocks, and enlarged it form 9 blocks to 20. Unfortunately, the floppy was stored in a box unwrapped, and the extra fabric was in a ziplock, so there is a noticeable color difference on the neutral fabric. I'm crossing my fingers that it is just dust, and will come out. I have it soaking in some oxyclean now.

For my next UFO, I pulled out what was supposed to be 12" pinwheels in solid black and a lovely brown print. It was just a sketch, a partially pieced sample block, and a huge stack of cut triangles.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]589163[/ATTACH]

While it looked okay, I wasn't thrilled with the black/brown combo, nor with the idea of giant pinwheels. I decided to cut up the brown triangles, and use a different brown fabric I picked up earlier this week to make smaller pinwheels, so I'm working on these.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]589164[/ATTACH]

I haven't settled on a layout yet, but I'm thinking I may set them on point. The black triangles are back in the UFO pile until I can come up with an idea for them..
Attached Thumbnails imag1053.jpg   20180215_192431-resized.jpg  
JJBlaine is offline