On No Creating UFO's
 

Sewing machine that I normally use for quilting is in the hospital for check-up. When I brought it in he told me 5-6 weeks. Well that meant week after Christmas. Was in there week before Christmas and he is has only one tech, down from 3. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/hug.gif So estimating may take another 2-3 weeks. I'm still sewing and so far have 4 lap size tops for Project Linus. I sure hope Kevin calls this week so I can get my machine back before I am overwhelmed with UFOs...lol

My local Linus Project will take both finished quilts and to be finished tops. Check with yours, they may do the same.

Sandy, I did but she only wants finished quilts. Guess not enough quilters down here working with this charity.

Bummer Julie...I hope you get your machine back soon. I was going to take my machine for it’s annual checkup this month but they too said the turn around time could be a couple of weeks...I’m not willing to part with it in one of my busiest sewing months. I think I’ll take it in spring/summer when I am busy in the garden. Good luck

Hope you get your machine back quickly.

One thing about quilt tops though...they don't go bad. They will still be waiting patiently when you're ready to do them...just ask the 5 in my closet.

Watson

That is why we need to have several machines in our house (always have a backup that way). LOL

Your tops are small enough to quilt on a DMS. That is all I have and can do a very large quilt and all the 43" x 68" quilts I donate.

While doing my marathon sewing room cleanup I found 10 tops! Ugh, I didn't know I had that many. I don't even like a few of them any more lol
Back in 2015 I remember sewing and watching baseball all year. I made a lot of tops but didn't quilt any of them.

I find I have a seasonal variation in what I do......winter....do a lot of piecing.....getting a number of tops, backing, binding and maybe even the batting cut and kitted up for when it warms up then it is "cool" to hide out in my basement where my longarm lives....I do have a heater down there I can use in winter...but often the snow drifts cover the windows so it is like a cave down there....so most of quilting gets done in the warmer parts of the year....actually I like doing it this way cuz once I get everything out and ready to go...I can just keep on a quilting, .then rearrange and get back to piecing...

Kevin's assistant called, Kevin is the tech, informing me my machine will be ready this week! I interpret that to mean NEXT week. Until the next call, I'll continue to make UFOs. I discovered I'm really good at making lap size UFOs. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

Kevin called again and I have my machine! Too late to start basting so will sew tonight and glue baste after breakfast tomorrow. Forgot how quiet this machine is. All is SO much better in my sewing/quilting life.

I have 6 quilt tops but have no place to lay them out, all places I used to use are closed due to the virus.

I have 9 tops I made in 2020 and a bunch of UFO's from years before. I plan on working on them this winter. Many will be done on my domestic machine as my mid arm is down for the count right now. Mostly I will do SITD just because it is easier to manage on my DSM. I finished a small table topper this morning that I plan on doing tomorrow.

Hope you get your machine back soon. I feel like a fish out of water when my machine is in for a clean up.

Sewing binding on quilt.
Binding cut for second quilt.
Third quilt tapping it's foot waiting for binding.
Next step will be to look for thread whiskers.

I can appreciate my repair guy since it’s never more than a couple of days.
Out of town quilters can drop off their machines and in most cases, it can be picked up on their way home.

I understand about your local Project Linus only wanting completed quilts. Both my local quilt guild and the Quilts for Kids chapter I used to belong to have a plethora of quilt tops needing quilting. The quilt guild has them sandwiched and pinned even, but the QFK group seldom did. I have a Sweet16, and I did one quilt every week or two for the guild until my Christmas sewing and snowbird trip got in the way. I will probably start up again in the late spring.