Heehee, BattleAxe, I took on someone's Frolic mystery and haven't had enough time to work on it but need to get it done between now and Thanksgiving so I can work on the next one. I am planning to try her directions for side seams instead of my usual open seams.

There was a problem/miscount at one stage and it took me a bit to figure it out and then make the missing units. Right now all the blocks/setting units have been made and put in bags to assemble block by block.

But I'm actually having a really good time putting it together! The other person did excellent work and did most of it, I just have to put the tiny bits together into blocks and I think that's fun. Sometimes I describe my quilting as making big puzzles.

I'm definitely open to do this sort of thing again -- but two Frolics will be enough! I really enjoy the piecing part of the process and have enough quilts and enough projects for the most part, but the quilting down is my downfall. With this UFO I get what I consider the fun part and don't even have to figure out what to do with the completed top other than ship it back. Win/win as far as I'm concerned :)

I can understand/get "solving a puzzle" part - especially if all the pieces are still there (or can be found).

No thank you. I have no interest in "inheriting" someone else's WIP or salvaging someone else's treasure. I want to spend my quilting time working on things that are created by me. I hope that when I am unable to quilt that no one feels obligated to finish my WIPs.

Find a newby longarm owner who is looking for practice tops. The quilts get finished and donated to something. And don't tell the family - say you found someone to finish and the love them. (Sheesh - if they arent willing or able to do the work themselves....)

I tried to take up where some one left off on a flannel quilt I got at a church rummage sale and finally I finished it and use it for cats blanket. Never again will I buy something like this.

My guild has a $1/ticket raffle each month for donated UFOs. Makes a little money for the guild and the person donating the UFO gets rid of it. If you don't belong to a guild, you might be able to donate them to a church rummage sale. There may be people who would purchase the quilts to practice their free motion quilting skills.

donating my own, taking over for someone else
 

I have a passion for rescuing old embroidered blocks and quilt tops, but I am pretty selective on which ones to purchase and re-do. Most of them are nicely embroidered but in horrid or plain settings, a select few were partially re-embroidered because they were of interest and value to me. That being said, I have donated my own UFOs for a variety of reasons and picked up antique linens or quilt tops selectively.

I'll ask everyone if you think a UFO swap to finish or add a border, etc., would be of interest to anyone on this board? I think it might be a fun project with some guidelines. Has this been done before here? Maybe limiting it in size or scope? To go back to the original owner but modified and completed?

Big fat no on finishing other’s stuff unless MIL or SIL who are exemplary quilters. I salvaged only one quilt in my quilting life and it was hubbie’s grandma’s quilt...totally worth salvaging for him. But that’s it. I had someone ask me to make a quilt from her mother’s curtains...sentimental project and I referred her to someone else.

I have taken many unfinished quilts from estate sales and garage sales and finished them and donated them. I hate to see someone's hard work go into a trash can. Usually they cost under $10.

I’m probably the only one who enjoys going through boxes of donated fabric at church. I like to use as much as possible so it doesn’t just linger in storage. I have someone who will take the double knit fabric & we make other projects besides quilts for charity.