2manyprojects

a wedding ring quilt I started in 1995

Grace creates

I made the top of a dresden plate tablerunner and began handquuilting it, to unfortunately realize the blue be gone pen got permanently marked on the quilt because I did my quilting outside on a sunny day. Well found this last year and yes after about 18 yrs the blue markings finally disappeared, so hopefully I get back to it and finally finish it.

QuiltnNan

my oldest is from 1974 LOL

svenskaflicka1

errr....ummm....i'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, but i have a set of embroidered squares i started back on a choir tour, back in 1967. haven't finished the hand embroidery, yet. now that i've retired, i might have enough time. if i can find them all...

Sewnoma

I haven't been quilting long enough to have a UFO that old! I just recently finally finished my "first" quilt...it started as a throw, then I decided I could manage queen size, then we bought a king size bed so I "needed" to make it larger. Ended up so big I had no room to lay it out so it sat as just a top for about a year while I made several other quilts. Then we had new flooring put in downstairs and I took advantage of having an empty living room to lay it out and get it basted and now it's finally done and lives on our bed. It was my first try at patchwork, my first try at FMQ...thankfully it's really scrappy so a lot of "sins" are hidden!! I'm pretty proud I managed to FMQ a 120" square quilt without using a longarm machine, even if my swirls and flowers are a little...off. LOL

Right now my oldest UFO is only about 2 months old!

basketcru

6 yrs!!! I completed the top just this year. It was a class and when the class ended, my husbands health took a dive . Put the quilt on the back burner and have completed several since, but this one is still waiting to be hand quilted. I'm a very patient person!!! LOL

My time

Officially, I have only been seriously quilting for 11 years. Now that being said my oldest UFO is 8 years old. I know hot a great start.

PlanoDebbie

Somewhere in my house is an Irish chain quilt that I pieced together when I was 16. I never quilted it. One of these days. I guess that makes my quilt almost 40 years old and not done.

TerrimB

So ladies, what is it with so many of us having our 1st be the one that isn't finished?? Had to laugh at this one because i am guilty also. Started with a machine that was grouchy so i decided to hand piece. Well at one point i realized that unless i added a lot more other yhings, i would finish a very small quilt. It's fabric left from some of my sisters sewing projects as a teen. She just turned 40. I love the fabric and the blocks and pull it out every so often to sew on it. Started around 15 yrs ago

IAmCatOwned

My oldest unfinished is an apple core quilt that was started in 1994. I spent years accumulating patches for it. I finished the top in 2011 (it is hand pieced). I hadn't quilted it because I have no place to pin baste anything larger than a twin (quilt shop closed). I hope to rectify that this winter OR I will just use a thick batt and tie it.

Nearly all of my unfinished projects date from 2007 and later. In 2011, I did a big cleanup and either completed or gave away anything before 2007 that wasn't already in active progress. Don't miss any of the ones I gave away, but it was hard at the time.