What's on your quilting "Bucket List"?
 

My only item on the list used to be to make ONE quilt that wasn't hideous because I wasn't really good at it or much of a sewer in the first place.

I have a few now that are halfway decent so my new goal is to make one for all my loved ones before I croak outta here. : )

i don't need a bucket... i need a storage pod! LOL I keep a folder of quilt ideas on my computer... the list is getting very long

Top of my bucket list is a Mariner's Compass. I keep looking for designs I like other than just a center medallion. Don't think I could manage designing my own and have what I have in my mind's eye translate to paper or fabric and have it decent looking. I keep working at it though.

I have a square piece of thick upholstery fabric cream with imprinted relief roses and leaves and I want to make a sort of hybrid quilt/bedspread no batting in between as the upholstery fabric is very thick and weighs a lot. Still thinking how to go about making this.

Just have a serious talk with myself about getting my UFO's done.:)

Yep. Me too, sandy!! I have lots of UFOs. Bed-sized quilts for 2 grandsons, a grandaughter, and son for starters. All four of them ARE UFOs!!

Pickle Dish (actually a current UFO)
Double Wedding Ring - (just got the Die for this)
Winding Ways (just got the Die for this - also)

a DWR for older daughter, another bed quilt for DH and me, quilt for DGD for wedding, and then a second round of quilts for each family member.

To many to list I pray that I'm here long enough to make them all, and that I don't run out of fabrics! Ha.

I have enough to start and finish then go to the bucket list which includes a bargello.

Ditto on that too!

That is what I have been thinking of doing but so many charity quilts to get done and not enough time in the day!!

I have a list of probably 40 quilts I want to make, and it grows all the time. I'm still learning, though, so I'm not quite ready for a lot of them.

One I'm getting close to feeling confident enough to do is Storm at Sea. I'm still pretty bad at sewing with bias cuts but I'm getting closer. I really love this pattern so I don't want to do it until I can do a good job of it. I don't like making the same pattern twice so I want it to be good the first time!

Drunkard's Path is another I am still working my way up to...I'm also terrible at curved seams so far.

And the list goes on from there...

Mine was a devil's puzzle (drunkards path) which I made in very bright colors on white. I enjoy it so much!

Gosh...so many! One that comes to mind is a hand quilted quilt. For that matter a well done machine quilted quilt. (Not sent to the LAQ, but done myself.)

~ Cindy

On my bucket list is to one day take a class with Bonnie Hunter,this is tricky as she does not teach in Canada but perhaps one day I can coordinate a holiday with her teaching schedule.

Please let us know how the Winding Ways works! I have been looking at this die and wondering if it will be difficult to piece accurately. Thanks!

Ditto for me too! So many I want to make. Some already set aside with fabrics.

It's never going to happen because I'm no good at curves, but I have always loved Double Wedding Ring. Failing that, I would like someday to learn hand applique and do something really pretty with lots of colors.

Among others...a hand quilted whole cloth queen size quilt,a hand pieced and quilted GMFG.....not to mention the kits and stuff that are " ripening" in the storage areas.

Top of my list is a black and white string quilt. Just started it. Others include some scrappy quilts to use up strips and pieces that I think are multiplying nightly!!!

More than I can ever accomplish cuz the list gets longer faster than I can sew!

Definite ones that have been on the list forever - double wedding ring (traditional), grandmothers flower garden like Ron's mom made for our wedding gift, state flowers like my mom and aunt started and I finished as my first foray into piecing as a HS student.
Have been collecting vintage fabrics for the DWR and GFG. Need to order embroidery pattern for the state flowers one.

Others I want to do list changes almost daily. Lol!

Well, I'll have to come back and post on this one later... currently doing an inventory of my kitted-up projects... I think it's up to four pages now (oh goodness). But off the top of my head, I've recently become fascinated by the Dear Jane quilt, so I would have to put that on the list also. :) Despite all of the things ahead of it.

Too many to list. I keep seeing more quilts on here that I want to make! I have about 25-30 kits that I have purchased. I want to get those done. This year I will finish all of my UFOs so I can start more. I am down to 5 of those. This is the 3rd year I have been concentrating on the UFOs, and will be so happy to finish.

Finish my grandmothers flower garden and hand quilt it (this I continue to work on between other projects), a bargello, a primitive applique quilt using wool for the applique and about 200 (or more) patterns I have bookmarked and want to try. Hope I live to be 150. :shock:

This is only the top 3 : Shakespeare in the Park. Hunter's Star and Storm at Sea. Needless to say the actual list is longer than my life expectancy. I'd love to be able to say I won't add any more to the list but we all know how that goes!

I have so many post its on magazines and books and print outs and computer saved that I cannot make them all. I worry about my stash and how I will ever use it all. I love all my fabric. I am still leaning how to FMQ and it is a slow progress.

Grandmother's garden, 3-D blocks, think it's called cards? Probably lots others, I keep saying to quilt friend, ooohhhh, let's do that! MSQC had one the other day with tumbler block made by folding the square of fabric around it, wish I could find the video again!!

Too many, I have like 4 judy neimeyer, midnight Stars, tennesee waltz, ceasers crown, celestial star, Starstruck, twister, hunter star, lemoyne star, 2 Mckenna Ryan quilts, Several Toni Whitney projects, sampler, winding ways.I keep adding to it every year.

My all-time bucket list quilt is a Baltimore Album with needle-turned applique. I doubt I'll ever get around to spending that amount of time on one quilt though.

Me too! I started a list on a spreadsheet a few months back. That way I can actually keep track, but my list isn't complete. On the list I have the size, who it's to be made for, and things I need to buy, that way I have it all at a glance. Then I have a tab for each project and list the pattern, a link to it online, the fabrics I have that I'm planning for it, and anything I need to purchase. I have about 20 projects on the list, but many more books with patterns I'd like to do.

The one that is at the top of my list is the Ohmygosh quilt pattern I have the fabrics, stonehinge and the background. Now just need the kick in the bucket to get going.

Don't you mean "What's not on my bucket list?" I did remove the "Ozark Star" after desperately using it as a "last minute" challenge project in December.

Like many others who have posted, I have yet to finish a few UFO's that are on my 2015 list of goals (four to be exact) However, I have purchased/saved a couple of patterns which I am anxious to tackle. One is called Line of Fibs.

My bucket list is soooooo long, I would need a team of quilters to complete it.

I use this fabric to make totes out of.

UFO's and kits I've put together are a gimmie....
My Main goal is to become a proficient quilter- i just got a Sweet Sixteen, so I have a long way to getting there!!
As far as quilts, a Wholecloth quilt with linens as in the type Cindy Nedham does!

There are so many in magazines that I would like to do, but one day I will challenge myself to do a Storm At Sea. I normally do fairly easy or quick quilts simply because I dislike UFOs. When I start a quilt I see it through to completion. So I try to do quilts that can be done in a week or 2. Storm At Sea will take me longer.

What's on my bucket list? Much more than I have years left to live. Last count I had over 150 UFO's, but I would say my top priority is to use up my stash and all my scraps that seem to multiply as well as my UFO's. Don't think I have a long enough lifetime unless I am granted two or three more. And then there is all of those "Oh I would like to make one of those" ideas as well. Tooooooo much and not enough time.

Nerys, I have done this very battingless quilt before (lived in Arizona at the time). You will LOVE it when it's done. I worked at a fabric store at the time (I had to do sewing classes, this is one I did), so I would get upholstery fabric (end of bolt, remnants what ever was in the colors I wanted - Black, Gold and Green). It gets heavy to work with, but it looked wonderful on the end of the bed over a green bedspread. Make your seams wider 1/2", upholstery fabric likes to unravel. Good luck and have fun