Rescuing/salvaging/making over - someone else's UFO
#31
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,167
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
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
#33
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 653
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.
#34
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 847
I have a similar problem with someone else's UFOs. The problems is I have no idea who the original maker was. My MIL gave me several unquilted tops. She doesn't quilt. She said they were in *her* mother's possession, but her mother was not a quilter either. Nobody in the family quilts (other than me, of course) and nobody knows who made these tops! What am I supposed to do with them? I don't care for them, they're not very well made, they're not my style, but when I muse about possibly selling them on eBay, I get gasps of horror from other quilters.
#36
I have a similar problem with someone else's UFOs. The problems is I have no idea who the original maker was. My MIL gave me several unquilted tops. She doesn't quilt. She said they were in *her* mother's possession, but her mother was not a quilter either. Nobody in the family quilts (other than me, of course) and nobody knows who made these tops! What am I supposed to do with them? I don't care for them, they're not very well made, they're not my style, but when I muse about possibly selling them on eBay, I get gasps of horror from other quilters.
#37
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?
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?
#38
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.
#40
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
Posts: 3,025
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.