Lot's of things started for babies, left unfinished and gifted to the adult baby that it was started for. Me too! I started a quilt for my 3 year old to take to school for nap time. My mom sandwiched it and started in the ditch quilting on it. I pulled it out of the stash in September, ripped out the quilting which was only the center line in both directions, ironed and sent it to the LAQ. Not done...but almost done. Oh, the baby made 16 this year = 13 year UFO.

When I found this UFO, I found my "first quilt" which is still in pieces. That makes it the oldest at 16 years! I'm starting to get heart palpitations as I type just thinking about my UFOs. I need help. This is an illness or is this therapy? :)

In August I finished a block swap from my mini group - circa 2002? The challenge was to make 6" blocks using the color wheel as inspiration - complementary colors: blue/orange yellow/purple and red/green.
I put the blocks together, quilted it and gave it to my guild for our quilt show auction.

My DM started a quilt for me before we lost her twenty four years ago. I have been going to finish it but never have.

It's not finished yet but it is well on the way. Our guild challenge was to finish your oldest UFO or PIG. Mine was a shoebox full of cut pieces and a couple of completed shoefly blocks which I had intended to be my first quilt to use up all of my scraps from dresses, blouses etc that I had stitched for my sister and myself as a teenager. I hadn't even opened that box since 1976 and was just going to toss it all in the trash. Once I really looked at it, I just couldn't as it represented so much from my growing up. I could see our 4-H shirts, kitchen curtains, Centennial dress and so much more. Last winter, I sewed all the blocks and have enough to make two large lap/single quilts. I plan to sash, border, quilt and bind them this winter and give one to my sister and keep the other for me. They won't be my most beautiful quilts but they will be full of memories and a little reminder of home.

The oldest UFO I ever finished was 20 years old. I started it in 1984- my 1st quilt, all triangles (!!?!!)cut the blocks out with scissors, pieced them using 1/2 inch seams & put them away for 20 years! When I became interested in quilting I decided to finish the quilt, cut off a lot of points squaring up the blocks, used some nice quilting flannel on the back, practiced my FMQ on it for the 1st time & it is now an unattractive, warm, much used quilt!

My oldest UFO was a baby quilt for my daughter. She turned 31 in June and it's finally finished!!!

16 years old for me BUT a friend of mind - who asked I never tell anyone her name when relaying her oldest UFO story - never quilted & bound a quilt made for her son for his high schoolo graduation. She finished it for her grandsons ... when he got his doctorate ... telling him that it was a VINTAGE quilt. Cracks me up every time I think of it!

My oldest is from 2007. The year I started quilting. :)

I finished a quilt for my mother earlier this year, she had made embroidered blocks and I set them into a quilt. Started in 1987. She just gave me two more projects to finish that she started in the early 80's. Hope to have them done by her b-day in jan.

I have a Baltimore Album by Pam Bono that is 8 years in the making...so far. I got it out this week and did one block and cut out the next block. I have ten done in total so far and have told myself "no new projects until this is finished"...yeah right, like that's going to stop me. I have noticed a big change in my sewing abilities from the first block to the 10th block and wish I could start over again(not in this lifetime)...but, I am determined to finish this finally so it doesn't end up being a TEN year project.