Finally finished something!
 

Well, after a long dry spell, I have finally finished some UFOs. 4 placemats that have been cut out but not put together for the past 2 years. Yay! Here's a pic:
Rob

Rob: Congratulations on your wonderful finishes. I raised chickens for a few years in my youth so they have a special place in my heart.

Lovely finishes, Rob. I went through a Chicken/Rooster phase and these would have been a fine compliment. Good memories and a UFO off the list. Check, Check!.

Love the chickens!! Looks awesome! Good going, Rob!

Such sweet chickens, congrats on your finish.

I also have a finish to report .......... my hubby is finally getting his quilt for this winter, <hanging head> it has only taken me 6 years to complete it. The appliqué blocks started as something to do while watching NASCAR races on Sundays. Then hubby noticed and asked who I was making the quilt for and I answered no one. Well, he then claimed those blocks to be for his quilt. My hubby has waited very patiently for this to be done.

Beautiful finish, Sync- congratulations on getting it done!

Chicken placemats- thanks everyone.

Rob

Charming, Sync! A finish is a finish no matter when it happens. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/hug.gif

Beautiful finish, Sync! Those are lovely fabrics.

Love those chicken placemats, Rob!

I love your finish, sync!! So pretty....definitely worth the wait!

Sew good to see these finishes, Sync, rryder and retiredT.

MrOK is putting up a hanging pole here in the basement for me. Theoretically I can clip my quilt to some pant and or skirt hangers to hang and then take pictures. sure hope this works for me. My house doesn't allow for a good place to take them otherwise.

Meanwhile I have pinned a UFO to the LA for quilting. Now to decided what to quilt.

Good evening everyone, Rob those chicken are Gorgeous, Sync, loving those appliques, and congratulations to the both of you on those finishes

Speaking for myself, the mask making is getting stale with me, I think that I got 15 or 20 more to go and I am going to pack that up until after the new year. It's time to get in a little piecing. I don't even want to make another apron

Happy finishes everyone and stay safe

cherryb

Sync: Congratulations on your great finish!

oksewglad: I look forward to seeing your hanging pole set up.

Cherry- you're sick of making them - I'm sick of wearing them! I know its important but ...just...so...tired ...of...Covid.....

In the meantime- a moment of respect for my pretty points here. Hope I manage to keep them when this block meets up.with its friends.

I went diving in to my UFO's last week to find one to finish for October. Well, I got really distracted, (squirrel) but for a good purpose....I think. Part of my challenge is that I love the planning and piecing part of quilting and not the finishing part. Then add the out of sight our of mind thing. Well I found eleven, yes, 11 quilt tops that need sandwiching and quilting. Some need backing because I have used up so much of my larger pieces this year already. But, in an effort to "see" the UFO's I hung them in my stash closet using skirt/pants clippy hangers. Each has its backing and batting all on the same hanger, when possible.

I know there are more lurking in hiding places about my sewing room but three are still in the piecing stage. They are going to wait. One additional one is so, dare I say ugly, that I have no desire to finish it. That puts me up to 14. Oh, goodness! November should be a record breaking month for me. I am determined to get these out of my closet and into the hands of someone who can use them. Besides I have run out of clippy hangers. Tee-Hee-Hee!

Rff, I certainly share your feelings on Covid. Right now I’m in the middle of an unexpected 2 week “vacation” from work because of Covid. I work at an early childcare center with infants. Long story short, a co-worker went on vacation and came home with Covid ......... her toddler room is okay (not closed) since she was away but she is good friends with my assistant. Since my co-worker tested positive and was in contact with my assistant, the center closed my infant room for 2 weeks. <sigh>

Had made quilts for a fire here several yrs ago. Discovered many of those houses were rarely used and didn't know whereabouts of owners. Lesson: get it done ASAP after a fire while there's still contacts.

Took those quilts to the Creek Fire assistance program. That's 17 out of my house and someone getting benefit for them. Once the new bobbin case for LA comes, I can quilt again and get many more ready for next disaster.

Good afternoon everyone, Rff1010, those points are looking really good, make it a scant quarter of a seam and you just might make it. Sync, I hear your pain and praying with you, but I've been making the mask since March. First, I made 20 for my DD that lives in Vegas and is a Doctor of Physical Rehab at the VA, the I made 20 for my DGD that live in Oceanside, CA, five or six for a cousin that lives in Moreno Valley, CA and eight for a cousin that lives in Dallas, TX. I left two custom made for my former neighbor and my hair stylist and my DGS in Kansas. I'm trying to get about eighty to ninety made to send back to my hometown in Kansas. Oh yea I made my ex-grandson-in-law one and the six great grand daughters one. When I get that number that stated earlier I am finished for the year

Have a safe evening everyone

cherryb

I got one!

I completed a UFO that's been on the go since 2012. Reporting style a la Quossum, although this isn’t necessarily going to show me at my best… 😊

Quilt Origin – I went to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK in the summer of 2012 and saw a trunk show done by Marti Michell. She had the most amazing quilt, done in gorgeous oriental fabrics, made out of hexagons with a sort of basketweave border making a secondary hexie pattern. So I trotted off to Ms. Michell’s booth straight after the trunk show ended and got me one of her huge hexagon templates. I was so proud. And enthusiastic https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

I bought the Paddington Bear fabric from one of the members on this Board (who unfortunately doesn’t seem to be active anymore). Don’t ask me why I looked at the rather sophisticated oriental hexies pattern and went “kid’s quilt!” (especially since I had no kids at the time). I have no clue what went on there, but my brain goes off on its own sometimes.

Why it became a UFO – What I neglected to do (purely because I didn’t think of it, so this was me being dumb rather than ornery) was purchase the *pattern* for the quilt. Up to that point in my quilting life I only really used traditional blocks, and was used to making up my own arrangements/patterns as I went along, and it genuinely did not occur to me that I needed anything more than the template.

Uh huh.

Well, in a nutshell, I would absolutely, positively advise anyone wanting to do this quilt to get Marti Michell’s pattern. I imagine she has some wonderfully simple manner of putting it together. And also watch some Youtube videos on how to machine piece hexies properly. I had never even hand-pieced hexies before, never mind machine-pieced ones. And, well… Yeah.

The cutting was fine, the arrangement of fabrics into the pattern was fine, the sewing it together was… interesting. There was a lot of stop and start (with often years of ‘resting’ in a cupboard between attempts to progress).

I started sewing the hexies together in 2012. I finished sewing them together in August 2020.

I like to think that my piecing skills have improved between the start and the finish https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png.

Why I finally finished – Pandemic-enabled fit of ‘Git ‘er done!’

I also have to thank Tartan from this Board for her help in finding Cath at Cumbrian Longarm Quilting, who did a fabulous job of longarming the quilt together. The thought of hand-quilting a quilt this size was somewhat off-putting, so longarming was the way to go, although I hadn’t had a quilt longarmed in years, and had never done one “long distance” prior to now. Absolutely worth it.

Quilt's fate – Birthday present for my son when he turns 3 later this year (not that he was even a glimmer on the horizon when it was started, lol!!). But the perfect recipient.

Attached photos show the whole quilt, detail of a random hexie, and an edge flipped to show the backing.

(And for anyone wondering, the proper name of the original inspiration pattern is ‘Interlocking Hexagons’. I looked it up. Only took me until yesterday to think “I wonder if I could find it online?” Honestly, sometimes I amaze myself. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...s/rolleyes.png)

Hope the hanging pole works brilliantly oksewglad.

Great placemats RobR.

Sync that is a seriously lovely quilt I'm sure your hubby will love it.

And way to go on the organising WMUTeach!

Panchita - I think your hexagons are a fantastic used of larger print or focal fabrics. And Paddington is a classic. An inspiration for us all!

Panchita, how big is that quilt? and how big were the hexagons? I agree with Rff1010, it is an great quilt!

Good evening everyone, I'm back, you can tell I'm not being very productive. But, I keep lurking around here and lurking at the on-line fabric sites.

Panchita, I just love your story-format of your UFO's. You always make it sound so interesting, it's like a good book you can't put it down. Then you post the images of your story and pop it all is 'great' thank your for sharing. Loving that interlocking hexie

I am not going to get a thing done in the sewing for the rest of the week, tomorrow I will be making up apple deep-dish and biscuit dough and Thursday I'll be off to a hair salon appointment then Friday prepping the sewing room to move the s/m cabinet into the space

Stay safe everyone

cherryb

Darling quilt, Panchita......Love the pattern for that fabric.

WMUTeach...OMGoodness... I can’t wait to see all those quilts you discovered.

Cherry....You’ve certainly made a lot of masks...I think most of us have done a bunch, too, but, I’m with you...I quit making them when I was told by one center that they had more then enough. Us quilters inundated the country with masks, which is awesome!

Darling quilt, Panchita......Love the pattern for that fabric.

Panchita, congrats on that lovely finish. Paddington Bear is just perfect for that quilt. Your son will just love this for his bed. I’m going to have to look up Marti Michell’s templates. I have a grandson who will be turning 3 next summer and that pattern will work great.

Panchita- Congratulations on gettin this one done. I enjoyed reading about it’s history. Have to admit to laughing about buying the template, but not the pattern- sounds like something I would do https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

Rob

Panchita, love your hexie quilt. I have one of Marti Michell's hexagon books. I will look for that pattern.
Paddington Bear never goes out of style.https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/smile.png

What a fun story about a fun quilt, Panchita. I love how you make us sound "normal" with your story which is so similar to several of mine!

Great finishes posted lately! Rob, K would love those placemats. She has a huge collection of chicken decor.

I am currently quilting my butterfly quilt, which I finished piecing in June. While K & I were finishing the UFOs her daughter made, I folded the butterfly top & left it until now. So I consider it a UFO. I hope to finish it this week, for an Oct. completion.

Hi Everyone - thank you so much for all the love for the Paddington quilt! https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/heart.gif

The quilt ended up being 76" x 60" - basically I cut as many hexagons as I could out of the Paddington focus fabric I had and then arranged it into a rectangle-ish shape https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png.

The hexagons are 9 1/4" at their widest point.

The ruler (I realised afterwards I should probably have called it a ruler rather than a template, but I think of it as a template) is the 'Multiple Size Hexagon Ruler' (number 8060), and actually has markings on it for various different sizes of hexagons - I just cut round it...

This is going to be the last quilt I can contribute to the UFO finish count for a while - not because I don't have any more UFOs, but because they are all somewhat further from being finished. A lot further. Although I did surprise myself with how quickly I finished this one, so I suppose you never know! Nonetheless, I shall enjoy seeing the finishes of others in the meantime.

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Rff1010: Wahoo for pretty points!

WMUTeach: Great idea for the clip hangars.

Sync: Sorry to hear about your unexpected vacation. Stay healthy.

petthefabric: That’s an awesome donation plus extra space in your house.

Panchita: Awesome finish! It will be a much loved quilt.

cherrybsixty: Please show us pictures of your sewing room.

Conchalea: I’m looking forward to seeing your butterfly quilt.

I pulled a UFO quilt off the LA tonight and have binding attached, now to sew it down. Hope to get it done before the first, and then use my new "hang up" pole to take a picture.

Preliminary October count
 

Congratulations on choosing fabrics for alternate blocks that make the sampler blocks just all fit together.

And Connie has another; another home for orphan blocks. 🎖Special award for using orphan blocks

Rob has ended the dry spell with a project that touches my heart. My Mom loved a kitchen rooster or ten

Sync reports what she thinks is an unacceptably old UFO.
You may feel guilty about the length of time, but my oldest UFO was begun in 1994 and finished in 2018. It was moved at least twice. There are also the wedding quilts completed after the birth if the 1st child, the baby quilts finished for high school graduation. Any time is a good time to complete a UFO!🙋🏼👏

Panchita would never have had a quilt right there for DS’s birthday if it had been finished in 2012. She says,
I got one!
I completed a UFO that's been on the go since 2012. Reporting style a la Quossum.

Quilt Origin – I went to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK in the summer of 2012 and saw a trunk show done by Marti Michell. She had the most amazing quilt, done in gorgeous oriental fabrics, made out of hexagons with a sort of basketweave border making a secondary hexie pattern. So I trotted off to Ms. Michell’s booth straight after the trunk show ended and got me one of her huge hexagon templates. I was so proud. And enthusiastic https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

Why it became a UFO – What I neglected to do (purely because I didn’t think of it, so this was me being dumb rather than ornery) was purchase the *pattern* for the quilt. Up to that point in my quilting life I only really used traditional blocks, and was used to making up my own arrangements/patterns as I went along, and it genuinely did not occur to me that I needed anything more than the template.

I started sewing the hexies together in 2012. I finished sewing them together in August 2020.

I like to think that my piecing skills have improved between the start and the finish https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png.

Why I finally finished – Pandemic-enabled fit of ‘Git ‘er done!’

Quilt's fate – Birthday present for my son when he turns 3 later this year (not that he was even a glimmer on the horizon when it was started, lol!!). But the perfect recipient.

Panchita, I just did the same thing, only I didn’t even buy the template/ruler! Instead, experimented with a set of interlocking hexie templates to do a QAYG GFG. But I’m not as smart as you—the hexies finish at 5”. And they are sewn together by hand. Which begs the question: if you know it will take months or years to finish, when does it become a UFO?

We have 8 so far in October, but there is (almost always) an end of month flurry. Tomorrow we get Zeta, Weather Channel says. A good day to make chili and sew bindings. Stay safe, everyone.

WMUTeach, I have lived that story! Happened to me around January with 18 UFOs. I'm down to 14, although not all are finished tops. I'm working on my machine and hand quilting skills so I don't stall at that stage as long.

Only a few days left to get something done for the October UFO to FO count!

I'm getting more excited/desirorous of getting LA into commission again. Then the holding pattern will start landing.

Finished a quilt tonight...yeah! Will take pics tomorrow.
How it started. In 2017, My QBuddy and I saw a shop sample while out and about and we decided to do a sew along at our monthly get togethers.(Tic Tac Sew by Black Cat Creations) Both of us wanted to make it a tad longer so we added another 9" to the design. We worked diligently. She used scrap squares as well as scrap rectangles in country colors. I chose to use up some bright scraps, but bought fabric for the light rectangles and squares. We shared fabrics from each others scraps as well.

Why it stalled. She got hers off to a quilter and mine sat. Two years ago I bought a wide backing to finish mine...Oops I bought 1/2 yard too little and so it sat. A couple of weeks ago I bought the right amount of backing and laughing to myself as it's the same fabric but from a different shop!

And then. This past week I loaded it on the LA and started quilting a new pantograph (Lisa's raindrops from Urban Element) on it. Next sewed the scrappy bright binding I have had made for 3 years since getting the top done and now have it all stitched in place.

Pattern link
https://www.quilterswarehouse.com/ti...quilt-pattern/

Oksewglad- that looks like a great pattern. Can't wait to see your version.

No finish for me for October. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...s/confused.png I just can't get one finished by the end of the day today. Looking to finish one this coming week and then each week froward. Yes, big plan. I must reduce the UFO's before starting anything else.

UFO from Post# 1275
 

Last night, using my "new" hanging system I took a picture of the TicTacSew quilt. I think I need to take photos in the day light. Will take some pictures today with natural light to see how they look.

Picture #1 should show the PVC pole and the skirt hangers grasping the quilt. I need to get some more skirt hangers.
#2 the pole fitting in the between the ceiling joists and outer wall. The other end has a wood perpendicular board in the middle of the house that keeps the pvc from sliding off. This is a 1 1/4" (inner size) of PVC repurposed from our well pump redo and had only been down the shaft a week before it was replaced with 1 1/2" PVC. Thought I'd save something from our $4500 plumbing bill!
# 3 TicTacSew UFO all done...one Grand claimed it, but it's going to her 5 yo cousin in Massachusetts as she hasn't got a big bed quilt from Gram yet.

Outstanding finish, Ok!! Really love this quilt....and awesome quilt hanging system..Very creative...

I have also found that my photos look better in day light. Even in the winter on a gray day, I will slip out on my patio and hook up my clip hangers on the frame of my sliding door and snap my photos. Much more accurate color.