Well, my house sale was cancelled. This has had a ripple effect, because now I can't buy my new house, those people can't buy their new house, & on & on. I've almost cleared my house out & am planning to move in with my daughter. I have found a new realtor who will list my house again, my 'new' house & loan have bother been extended for 60 days, so if my house actually sells by this new deadline, I'll be able to move into the new house. To add insult to injury, all my fabric is way at the back of the store room, blocked by huge stacks of boxes & furniture.

christinelf: Welcome and what a wonderful project to be completed for your 40th.

cherrybsixty: Congratulations on posting a picture and your lovely completed UFO!

Conchalea: My heart hurts for you. Prayers that it will sell fast.

Thanks Retiredteacher09, for your kindness it's been quite a learning session

chriatinelf, welcome to the forum and such a beautiful DWR to have the privilege's to complete

Conchalea, I understand your plight, my scheduled move has been pushed back also. Good luck and blessings on your new efforts

Stay safe everyone

cherryb

Cherry....beautiful finish. Whoever you gift this to should love it.

christimelf....that is a special quilt. That may be the oldest UFO I have ever seen but the DWR is timeless. It's awesome that the retailer was so helpful, too...

Conchalea...what? Oh, goodness...! That happened to me but it worked out as a blessing since a week after my first escrow fell out, my MIL was diagnosed with BC...so I was so grateful I was still there to help her. There is a reason for everything... Maybe the blessing is that you shouldn't be moving during this virus. Just buy more fabric or maybe a kit to get you through until you sell, which you will... Hugs!

Dontcha hate it when you are stupid? Put an entire row together without the sashing. Had to rip-rip rip. Grrrr....I can't wait for this top to be done.

Progress report: 80" x 80" vintage log cabin is quilted, will take off longarm today, make binding and machine sew binding to front.
to Rff1010: Been there, done that!
Conchalea: Hang in there, this Covid-19 will subside/ Please stay well.

Thank you everyone for the good thoughts. things can continue here, my house may sell for more than the cancelled price, so that will certainly help. My fear is it won't sell within the 60-day extension & I'll lose the other house. Due to the high uncertainty of the times, I don't feel like I can spend $$ on fabric. Who knows how much toilet paper will go for on the black market?!? Lol.

Conchalea- about as much as beanie babies are worth.

Conchalea, keep the faith, it will go according to plan and better, just believe

Christinelf, please forgive me on the misspelling of your handle earlier, 'count it to my fingers and not my heart,' and you are still most welcomed to the forum

Stay safe everyone

cherryb

Rff1010: I forgot a sashing earlier this week too. Then yesterday, I didn’t pin two fabrics together and couldn’t figure out why my design wasn’t the way I had planned it. I just left it and redesigned. Lol! So let’s hope we are done with major use of our seam ripper for a long time.

Oh Ouch, Conchalea! These are trying times for sure. Keeping my fingers crossed that things work out for your move.

Congratulations on your finish Cherrybsixty and on being able to post pics!

Christinelf- that will be a truly special quilt and a wonderful way to celebrate 40 years.

stay safe everyone, I just saw a news flash indicating severe storms are expected across the midwest today.

Rob

Since I finished, for the most part, the Porcelain top yesterday and prepped it for the longarm, I am ready for the next project. I guess technically it is not a UFO, but it is a kit I've had for probably over a year. It is an Angela Walters kit I got really cheap on Bluprint. I got the LCs turned into HSTs, am cutting them apart now. Am thinking I should be able to get it mostly done today if I stay off the computer and away from the TV.
Isolation is no big deal for me, as I pretty do that on a daily basis, having no need to go out and be annoyed by the general public.
Got a message on the cellphone that heavy storms and heavy rain is on the way. I'll stay in the basement and sew.

2 March UFOs finished!
 

Hey all, I have a finish for March, finally! It counts as two since I decided to mash two UFOs together. The first UFO (part 1) in this is about 4 years old and consisted of the background fabric which I hand dye-painted and then did some decorative stitching and couching on. I could never decide what else it needed until I set the circles on my design wall. They are from a Danny Amazonas class that I took last summer and realized that I would never make the quilt that we were supposed to make from all those collaged circles. It went into the UFO pile and I fully expected that it would stay there forever. But, when I pulled part 1 off the UFO pile I realized that the collaged circles would be the perfect thing to add. Hence, 2 UFOs off the pile. Yay!!! It's about 56" long x 42" wide. The first two are details and the third is the full quilt. The colors on the first and third are more true to real life than the middle pic- at least on my screen.

Thanks for looking,
Rob

A two-fer Rob, congratulations to you and thanks for the kind words to me. I haven't mastered the process, but I am on the road. The novelty of it is over, and I can keep working on it (loading pix). I am loving your bubbles

Stay safe everyone

cherryb

That'sn a really cool piece, Rob. Congrats on two finishes with one quilt!

I'm working on a UFO today. Quilting the monster on my sit-down. Wish I had not used cotton batting on such a big quilt... it's like a wrestling match. Hope to have it to show in a few days.

Rob...wow.....very cool quilt... You got some time invested in the quilting details for sure...

I am still working on a WIP. Taking longer than expected but I'm enjoying it. Before I moved, I use to sew a lot more but new home means more DIY projects...Today, we built me a gardening table..yea! With age, it's hard on my body staying bent over or crouching...lol... We saved alot of the building scraps from the home build so my ideas are exhausting my hubbie...lol..

Praying you'all stay safe from harm both virus and weather...

You're a true artist! .. and two for one. That shows real creativity.

Hope everyone is safe and occupied during these interesting times. Conchalea sorry about the house, but you will get thru it, we can send you some fabric if you want? What a great way to reduce our stash! Rryder that is a awesome finish, they just blend like you planned it that way. It reminds me of marbles or planets rolling on a race track.

I probably will not have a finish this month, but there are still 2 days left. We have given up on watching a lot of TV with all the doom and gloom, DH is in his man cave (second garage) and I am cleaning the house. We were talking about all the people starting to do the Y2K thing again and then looked around our house, if the lights go out we light our oil lamps, can listen to music on the Victrola. I can sew on the treadle or with hand crank machines, over 50% of DH's wood working tool are old hand tools. Our stove is gas, I know how to bake and have stuff canned from the garden last year, but the fridge and freezer might be a problem if its off to long.
There is a way around anything!
Smile!

I finished a UFO today! A big one. It's a blue and white queen sized quilt... pattern from Quilted Twins. Will struggle to get a picture of it and upload it if I can. But for now, go ahead and count it as one finish. Thanks.

Rob: Great finish! I love your patience and creativity.

sewbizgirl: Looking forward to seeing a picture of your finish. I haven’t checked out the Quilted Twins website lately.

This world situation has changed our routines for sure. Looking forward to seeing your finish, too, SBG.

Well done, Rob..lovely quilt.

I am sewing some masks for family and friends. They can be used over the n-95 masks to keep them cleaner.

Have also started some tomato, kale, broccoli, and lettuce seeds...won't be in the garden for about a month. Tomorrow supposed to be sunny and warm and plan to do some cleaning up a bit outside.

Grands are home from school so they are here in the mornings until milking is done. They are pretty independent, but have an Easter project with the 11 yo to play with.

No more UFO finish for me for March...Hope to add in April.

She has put up a whole bunch of new quilts and patterns... that lady is so creative!

https://www.quiltedtwins.com/free-patterns-layout-2 scroll down to the quilts!

Rob, that's an amazing quilt!

sewbizgirl: Thanks for the link. I am amazed at her quilts. So many little pieces and huge quilts. There are a lot more than when I looked last year.

She is the queen of scraps!

Thanks everyone!

Started quilting another UFO on Sunday- not another twofer, it’ll just count as a single finish. I think Ikve used up all the UFOs that are combineable. I’m using the current UFO to try out some ruler quilting designs with a couple of specialty rulers I bought a few years ago. Might have it finished by next week...unless I give in and start working on the Helen Godden couching course I signed up for....trying to stay strong and wait until the UFO is finished and the 2017 BOM I started last month is done.

Rob

Rob, please show some close ups of the ruler quilting when you post pictures of that quilt. Would love to see some possibilities...

I proudly announce my first finish of this year: https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...e-t310401.html

I made it yesterday, so please count it as a March finish. I wrote about the quilt itself in the thread in the Pictures forum, here I put the info for this thread specifically:

Why it became a UFO: mostly due to technical difficulties. It was a nuisance to work on, there was also moving houses once, and the cut pieces got messed up a bit.

Why I finished: since I had a few UFOs at the end of the year, I decided to work on them starting with those meant for specific people, and only then charity stuff. I made a list and I kept the order. This one was the first thing o the list.

The Quilt's fate: I will give it to my friend's son. The long story is in the thread linked above ;)

Vasilisa: What a wonderful gift for the young man. Congratulations on the finish!

Nice finish, Vasilisa!

Nice finishes, Rob & Vasilia! Rob, your circles almost look like planets moving in space. Very cool image.
thanks for the sympathy comments, everyone. It does help. My stress level is high due to all the things I'm having to do to the house to list it. I was selling it to a company that would do the repairs, but they backed out. I think they fear the market will drop & they'll be left with lots of unsold houses.
Anyway, I saw that Bluprint is allowing unlimited free viewing on all classes until April 9. This is the time to learn new skills on our hobby, or add a new one to the mix.

It is April 1st and the count for March is declared officially complete. 2T UFO’s are UFO’s no more. Given is chaos in our world, , this us a great accomplishment. I know that many have switched their focus from UFO’s to masks and gowns, and that is wonderful. Personally, I do 25 masks and then switch to UFO’s. Here is the tally:1 —Teen’s Free Birds for her sister’s one year survival anniversary.

2-6–Sewbizgirl’s impressive collection of five finishes

7 —Bugaroo’s windmill quilt

8 & 9–Dedemac’s pillows

10,11,12–Connie’s charity quilt and two placements

13–rff1010’s Norwegian Wood quilt for her nephew. Sure he will ❤️.

14&15–Quossum’s ScrappyBargello and What was I Thinking. Her UFO stories are wonderful.

16&17–Connie’s two UFO’s combined into one completed quilt.

18 —Teen’s quilt for her great niece.

19–Rff1010’s peacock fabric quilt

20–Cherryb’s quilt intended for her grandson but will now be loved by someone else

21&22–Rob’s double score by mashing two UFO’s into one completed quilt.

23–Sewbizgirl’s as yet unpublished completion

24–Vasilisa’s Kendo quilt—we are all so impressed that it is finished in the midst of everything else going on in your life.

25–yet another finish for Rob. If I hadn’t already used up all my “same size” quilts, i would use it twofer idea,

With the uncertainty in the world, I am reluctant to set a goal for April. At least in the USA, we will all still be home. So let’s just KEEP CALM AND QUILT ON

will do Sewbiz.

Thanks Krisb

Disappointed in myself for not finishing any UFOs this month of March.:wave: Lots of quilting done, just not my UFOs. Back at it for April. I have just two that need binding and then will be finished.

Waiting to hear our numbers for March. Goal for April, two finishes! . :boy:

Thank you, Krisb!! I love your comment.."Keep calm and quilt on" with your name by it.... I'm going to hand embroider that on my isolation Memory quilt I am working on each night.....love it

Krisb, I appreciate the way you stepped in When I
needed to bow out for family reasons. Those reasons are now behind me. However, can I just be real honest and say that I have no motivation to get back to being record keeper? You are doing such a great job logging the completed UFO’s and recapping details. If you want to continue, you have my blessing and gratitude. If you don’t, maybe someone else would like to try it for a month? I just have a case of the blahs and am staying busy with mask making, not quilting.

Thanks again!

Congratulations on everyone's completions for March: I missed it by 80" of binding left on one side! It will be completed for sure for April. Kris B: I want a coffee cup

Sorry, I haven't contributed to the UFO count for this month. I have been looking at the same one for 7 weeks! And no, it hasn't changed since I pulled it back out. :p I was able to get two full-sized tops done and some pillow cases (my Mother asked for to go with her birthday present) for the Moratorium thread. That was the extent of all my enthusiasm for anything before the new COVID-19 restrictions.

It took the whole world to get sick before I was put on teleworking duty. Now it takes all I've got to stay focused and not sneak back to the sewing machine. ;)

I have been lurking and everything has turned out beautifully. Everyone is doing a great job--whether it is a 2-fer or a single. Keep those machines humming!

Well, I haven't contributed this month. Actually, I don't have any more UFOs, but do have some projects kitted up, and plenty of ideas in my head. Right now I am working on one that was a Bluprint kit, but I read the directions wrong and totally messed it up, so am busy rrrrrripping stitches out. I'm managing to keep myself busy in spite of the huge desire to allow myself a case of the blahs. It won't do anything to change the world situation, so I am forcing myself to stay upbeat. The dog seems to be enjoying all this one on one time with me, but also seems to miss the quilty friends coming over.