I am in too. I just finished a quilt that has been sitting for 2 years. I will post a picture later. It was for a friend. Her husband died and her son got me some tshirts that he used to wear to make into a quilt for her. I had machine quilted it but something happened to a section where the back was all messed up. It sat for a long time and last Saturday I tore out the bad part and requilted that section. She came over for tea later that day and I was able to give it to her.

Donac: A great finish and a really nice thing to do for a friend. Can hardly wait to see pictures.

Teach, too bad you aren't a little further west and you could get some snow days with the lake affect snow coming up! :D

Wow, it's great to see all the UFOs finished already this month! Sounds like we're all working hard :)

Good to "see" you, Sherry! Kudos to the great fabrics buys!
I was thinking if we all finish just one UFO, there would be lots of quilting done. Looks like lots of quilters who are committed......

Raggiemom - congrats on the first finishes of 2015. Great job!
Grannyquilter2 - love the "bless this home" quilt.
jclinganrey - great finishes
oksewglad - love the fabrics
jmoore - beautiful quilt. Please post when complete finished so we can see it in all it's glory.

I will track completed UFOs again this year, so please include pictures so we can all "ooh" and "aaah" and get ideas for ourselves to create MORE UFOs!

Hurray! My first finish of the new year! I took a class from Jenny Doan in early May to make the Disappearing Pinwheel. I got this back from the LA quilter in Nov. Got final stitches of my binding on last night. One picture with my 'model' who always has to lay down on any quilt I want to take a picture of. Then a close-up of the quilting and one without "Toby'. And a big welcome to all of you who are joining us this year!.

Sandy: That is a beautiful quilt and your long armmer did a beautiful job. I thought it was called a disappearing pin wheel because Toby was doing his best to make them disappear.

Pretty quilt Sandy. I like the large pinwheels on the outer border. My QBuddies and I did the DPW block and I have 2 UFO's to finish....thanks for the reminder!!

SuzieSew, I AM in the school closing zone! All of the public schools are closed today, Jan 7, but I teach at a Western Michigan University and we are tough beings who seldom close our doors. Actually, the semester does not start until Monday and faculty are all here getting ready for the "spring" semester. Ah..... next week a snow day would be grand. Sewing, sewing, sewing. Last year the university was closed 3 days, oh so rare, and I got three tops pieced. It was such fun to just drink hot cocoa and sew all day long and not leave the machine except to toss another log on the fire.

I drive through Middlebury often on my way to visit family near Indy. I'll wave next time I pass through town. :)

Omg what a beautiful quilt...and love your cat took...we had a black cat b the name of Toby - he had a nice long life of just over 16 years. :). We now have a lovely little girl Stella who is 8. :)

Judy in PHx, AZ

Beautiful quilt Sandy, and I know what you mean by animals always having to be on your quilts, blankets, pillows, or whatever.

Well next time don't just wave, we'll have to meet for lunch and visit the quilt shop at the Essenhaus!

I finished 4 baby tops over the weekend. The tops were pieced by different volunteers and I added a pre quilted double sided fabric for the batting/backing. I wish I had more of that kind of material because it's easy to use since the batting is already between the two layers. Now other volunteers will tie them.

These have been hiding in a couple of drawers since last summer. I still have several more to finish.

Connie

I can understand where you are coming from in your comment. I think I only completed one UFO project last year. I made several projects, but did not complete many UFO's. I think I can beat my record of last year. But I'm going to raise my goal # to 12. I'm going to try to complete 1 UFO a month, completing the 1st project by the end of February. That lovely motorcycle quilt I have been putting off for over 6 months to start. The issue being, I debating how to quilt it on my long arm. I want to do it in motorcycle pattern and free motion with my long arm. Anyway I'm in again this year. I will post when I have projects completed. Anyway, happy sewing and quilting everyone.

Congratulations!!!! They all look lovely.

Happy: I am actually shooting for at least one a month. The best I've ever done was the 2013 challenge, I finished six queen sized quilts. That was a good year.

Wow! Emma...6 in one year. Ha! I am really lucky if I get two done a year. And yet i see people on this board who do about 6 or more a month. I think they must not have a spouse or else they have someone to do the housework. :-) Dang! Stuff like that always gets in the way of quilting...and then there are meals..! Now off from here I go to grab a few minutes of quilting time.

I was all set to finish my first ufo this weekend till I took a machine quilting class yesterday. My machine sounded so loud compared to all the other machines that I left it to be tuned up. Keep up the good work everyone.

I hope to get a number of things done this year. Both boys are out of the house, we are not taking our yearly vacation until the end of Octobef and I retire(yeah!!!!!!) at the end of June after teaching math at the high school level for 38years.

Sandy: Remember these were UFO's that by and large I had put aside at the latter stages, mainly putting that last border on the flimsy. Now I have seven queen size quilts that are finished, sandwiched and waiting to be quilted. So if I just get focused it won't be difficult to get them done in a month. I am one of those widowed people that can pretty much quilt as I want and, sadly, clean house when I want. Trouble is I don't want to as often as I should. Today I actually had to bar myself from the sewing room to clean. The house looks nice but this no responsibilities thing takes discipline.
Donac: Sounds like a great year ahead. Hats off to all teachers, but especially on the high school level, all those raging hormones and high spirits, it takes a special person. Your going to love retirement, although it took me a while to break some of the mind sets that came from having to be at a certain place at a certain time five days a week. Hope you get your machine back soon, without too many withdrawal symptoms.

I'm impressed with all the accomplishments being made! Lovely work, ladies (and gents?).

I finally made time to work on my major UFO (a king size quilt for DD). I got 1/3 of the 42 bear appliques heat-and-bonded and cut out. My hand isn't going to be able to do any more of that kind of cutting tonight, so I'll save the rest and hopefully be able to get them cut out tomorrow. Then I will cut the backing blocks and apply the bears. The bear blocks will alternate with bear claw blocks, so at some point I'll be chain piecing those (all the fabric is cut).

I finished my most recent UFO completion the day after Christmas. And almost immediately started a new project.

My goal this year is to complete whatever new projects I begin (ie. not create any more UFOs) and sneak in a stray UFO completion as often as possible.

I get projects to the completed top stage and set them aside. But the quilting itself is for some reason rather daunting to me and I don't get the same excitement out of it that I do from the piecing. And I'm too much of a cheapskate to get someone else to do it for me!

mom-6--I fully understand what you are saying. I'm more excited about the patchwork and the interplay of the fabric. My FMQ are limited..I'm learning to like the straight line stitching :-)

Count me in. Although I did not officially join this last year, I did make it a priority. I actually completed 5 UFO's last year (some of which had been sitting around for 10 years) -and 2 brand new ones. I still have a number of quilt tops that are finished but not quilted - or tops that are started. I need to finish more this year.

Ta-DA and hip-hip hoorah! I finished my first UFO of 2015. Picture later..... OK not that big of a deal, just finishing the binding on a lap quilt, but it is now ready to find an home. My next challenge is to choose the next UFO to finish. Pulled out two and one needs to be layered so with limited space to lay out a larger utility quilt, I'll wait until my guild work day for that project. MMMM I do have a small hand quilted piece that needs just a little more quilting then, BAM the binding. Or.... my giant quilt that just came back from the long-armer. OR.... or... OR... or :o So many choices, so little time. Happy winter quilting all! It was -1 when I pulled into work this morning in Kalamazoo. That is the perfect temperature to sit with a quilt on your lap and bind, hand quilt or peruse books and magazines for new projects!

Didn't want you all to think I wasn't working on my UFOs....
 

Update on my UFO progress ... I've been quilting this baby quilt using my walking foot. This quilt is very heavy because of the dimensional pinwheels.I used 5 inch squares for the pinwheels. Also added lots of photos to the back side by just topstitching them onto the back. More added weight. I didn't realize how heavy it would make the quilt, but I can't turn back now. It's taking me longer to quilt than I had hoped. Do a little each day.

2 done!
 

Ok...here are my first two finishes. I know they aren't quilts but they are done!;)[ATTACH=CONFIG]505983[/ATTACH]

Sorry, the picture of the woven bag failed to upload, tried several times.

Oh good gravy....how do I make the picture smaller....it is gigantic!

My lqs is holding a drawing. You enter it by finishing 4 ufo's from Feb to May.

Wow, people are busy. Haven't completed any UFO's but did complete the Bonnie Hunter flimsy, pieced the back and made the binding so at least I'm making some progress.
Weasier: That quilt is amazing. I made a baby quilt for a friend and it turned out very heavy and not as soft as I had hoped. It was used as a "tummy time quilt" and it worked out really well. Those 3D windmills will be great for little fingers to explore. I will be making a baby quilt in the near future, and I think I will use a fluffier batt with less quilting.
WMut: Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Marich: I love it when people post big, makes it so much easier to see the detail. Love your dragon fly. Such beautiful work. Can you go into a little bit of detail on how you did it? What kind of applique method did you use? I am new to applique but love the art.

Loving all the latest finishes. That dragonfly is something else. Was that your own design, Marich ? Weasie, I admire anyone who can quilt on a DSM. I have tried a few times and it is very hard!

Marich52, love your wall hanging.

Weasier222-What a great baby quilt. I have never done a dimensional pinwheel, but it looks really interesting. Also the quilting you are doing on it is stunning and really sets it off.

Marich52-I love the dragonfly WH. I have a friend who is into dragonflies and a WH like this would be the perfect gift for her. Can you give the name of the pattern. Also, why wouldn't bags count. I have a bag in my UFO stack. Hey, a UFO is a UFO no matter what the size.

Curiosity questions for everyone...when do you consider an item a UFO?

For me it is something I have not touched or worked on in over year.

Anything I set aside to work on something else ( I guess I have an unofficialy 1-month timer before it hits UFO status). Unless it's a block of the month or ongoing project, as soon as it's not my main focus it becomes a UFO. Works for me, because I rarely work on more than one project at a time. Hence the reason 90% of my UFOs are tops waiting to be quilted.

Since I just started quilting about two years ago - for me, UFO are the ones that I started and lost interest in - and the second group that are ones my Mom started 25+ years ago and never completed.

I tried - I pulled out some blocks for my butterfly quilt. The blocks are all made but I need to applique the bodies on - and they are even already applied so I only need to stitch. I got three done and then wandered off . . .

And I did pull out the hexagon quilt that my Mom had started and started on finishing up the flowers (It was 9 short of what was needed) I did get the fabric cut and got the first round sewing . . .

But then I found Rhonda's block of the month and fell in love with that, but that one won't end up as a UFO as it's almost ready to go on the quilt frame.

I've made pledge that I MUST get something from the old pile done before starting anything new - I just love the part of picking out fabric and cutting pieces. I think sometimes as I'm putting something together, it just does not turn out like I was imagining, and then it's not fun anymore.

Thanks for all the nice comments on the dragonfly. I loaned the pattern to my quilting buddy but we are sewing together this weekend so I will get the pattern name. It is very easy and I just fused the pieces and blanket stitched them.
I'm with you Kristakz...after a project has sat in a bin for a month, it is definitely a UFO. Two years ago, I did a big push to finish UFO tops. Actually finished piecing the first quilt I ever started....25 years ago...it still isn't quilted though:D

Cute pinwheel. Dragonfliy is so dramatic. Great job done. Keep up the good work everyone. I have had a productive 10 days. I finished six quilts...okay to be honest the smallest is the size of a sheet of paper, but it's hand quilted as is a small table runner. The largest is 30 " square but all I had left was the binding. Nice to have these UFO's and one WIP done. Will try to get picture tomorrow. BB nights are great for hand stitching even though my team lost.

I really like your pinwheel quilt weasier22, it is so fresh and cute!
Everything started is a UFO for me. I never work on something from start to finish but hop around like an excited puppy from project to project. They are always new and interesting or they stay in their box on the shelf until they become that way again.
I am still working on quilting my "to be finished" for this month. The idea of seeing it done is carrying me through some hiccups but I still have lots to do.
My husband has laughingly suggested that I might actually end up cutting it into a couple of placemats in order to call it finished by the end of the month.

A UFO, for me, is any project that has gone beyond the planning stage. It is cut, may be partially pieced, a flimsy done but not layered, a piece quilted but not bound or a quilt or other project just not ready to put into the arms of another person.

I am laughing :D:D:D. If I counted all of the quilts I have planned in my head..... I would never get to the bottom of my UFOs. I still have not counted mine yet for this year and this group. I am scared :eek: of the number! Just heard of a new baby in the family and so, well here I go another quilt to do. Plans made and now I need to gather from my stash to get started. Will likely do one more UFO before starting the baby quilt.