2020 UFO Challenge
02-16-2020, 05:08 PM
#372
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
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Quiltmom2, well you are a brave woman. The fifty states are one thing but then quilting it all! I would be frozen into immobility thinking about quilting this precious piece. Congratulations on this fabulous effort and result!
02-16-2020, 05:28 PM
#373
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
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Beautiful finishes, Teen and Quiltmom! All that beautiful handwork! 
The embroidery states quilt is a different one than the one I'm doing. I'm going to borrow your good idea to put a star in some of the spaces, to round it out to an even number.
Thank you for showing your work, ladies.
I had a finish this weekend, but it's not a quilt so you don't have to count it.
The embroidery states quilt is a different one than the one I'm doing. I'm going to borrow your good idea to put a star in some of the spaces, to round it out to an even number.
Thank you for showing your work, ladies.
I had a finish this weekend, but it's not a quilt so you don't have to count it.
02-17-2020, 04:38 AM
#376
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: western NY formerly MN, FL, NC, SC
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Originally Posted by QuiltMom2
Per request (and I think the embroidery really needs to be seen!)
02-17-2020, 03:20 PM
#377
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Kansas
Posts: 4,436
Your embroidered quilt is heirloom standard, QuiltMom2! Absolutely gorgeous!
Teen, what a sweet hexie quilt! I love how you used different light fabrics for the background.
Sewbiz, your afghan looks perfect for snuggling under.
I have three walhangings that only need the binding and a hanging sleeves. I'm hoping to finish them this week.
Teen, what a sweet hexie quilt! I love how you used different light fabrics for the background.
Sewbiz, your afghan looks perfect for snuggling under.
I have three walhangings that only need the binding and a hanging sleeves. I'm hoping to finish them this week.
02-18-2020, 02:39 AM
#378
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Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 835
Originally Posted by WMUTeach
OK folks on the UFO journey, here is my big reveal! My sister-in-law, who passed away 20 years ago, left 100 hand pieced blocks named Pontiac Star. I found them in a box with the magazine pattern/directions, her plan for layout and the plastic templates she made and used. I challenged myself to learn to hand piece and finished the additional 32 blocks needed to complete the quilt as she had planned early this fall.
She was a master quilter and hand quilted most of her work with the tiniest stitches imaginable. So to honor her intention, I next my next challenge was to learn to hand quilt and complete the quilt as she would have. My stitches are not as tiny as hers would have been but they are within the acceptable range and yes, I got much better as I progressed. I finished adding the label on Friday night and gifted it to her youngest son and his bride yesterday. He was about 15 when she passed away and did not have "grown up" quilt from her. Now he and his new wife have a quilt from both his mother and from me, his Auntie Linda.
She was a master quilter and hand quilted most of her work with the tiniest stitches imaginable. So to honor her intention, I next my next challenge was to learn to hand quilt and complete the quilt as she would have. My stitches are not as tiny as hers would have been but they are within the acceptable range and yes, I got much better as I progressed. I finished adding the label on Friday night and gifted it to her youngest son and his bride yesterday. He was about 15 when she passed away and did not have "grown up" quilt from her. Now he and his new wife have a quilt from both his mother and from me, his Auntie Linda.
02-18-2020, 05:09 AM
#379
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
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I managed to finish my first February ufo over the weekend, I cannot share a picture of it yet- it was a test pattern for a magazine designer, I can share until it is published but it’s done and I’m working on another ufo- which I set aside to get the test pattern done in time for the deadline. I hope I can keep up the momentum .
