2016 UFO Challenge of the Month
01-03-2017, 11:01 AM
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Glojean, your little quilts with your mother's embroidery are so special. Congratulations on your wonderful finishes. Toot, Toot! I think these might just be our last UFO's for 2016.
Originally Posted by Glojean48
When my mom passed away 10 years ago I acquired some of her crewel embroidery projects. I intended to make them into wallhangings for each of my three nieces as a Christmas gift one year. Well, that year was going to be 2016 - however, I couldn't find the embroidery pieces. When I looked through one of my decorative boxes that holds a lot of different projects to be finished, lo and behold, I discovered the embroidery! This was the weekend before Christmas so I had to work fast - put a simple border on all three and quilted them, finishing them in time for
Christmas. My nieces were thrilled to receive something lovingly stitched by their beloved Grandma and finished by their Auntie. Three more UFO's off my long list.:-)
Christmas. My nieces were thrilled to receive something lovingly stitched by their beloved Grandma and finished by their Auntie. Three more UFO's off my long list.:-)
01-03-2017, 11:08 AM
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2016 Total!
As we are now three days into 2017, I'd better post the tally for 2016. BUT FIRST, congratulations go out to our December finishers who had a combined total of 43 UFO finishes for December. Thanks to MacyBaby, Libster, Kassaundra, elly66, silliness, QuilterMomma, RetiredTeacher09, Quiltmouse, cannyquilter, SheriR, Altairss, JuanitaBean, PatriceJ, Fraew, Rryder and Glojean48. Toot, Toot!!!
So that brings us to a Grand total for 2016. We had....drum roll please....452 UFO finishes!!! Amazing job! Simply Amazing! Congrats to all who participated!
So that brings us to a Grand total for 2016. We had....drum roll please....452 UFO finishes!!! Amazing job! Simply Amazing! Congrats to all who participated!
01-03-2017, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by silliness
My company just left, so I am trying to catch up with this thread:
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Rob-Four more at the end! Your coasters/table toppers are great. I love the micro quilting on the first one. Do you use variegated thread for the quilting? Your color choices are always inspire me to take more risks with color.
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Rob-Four more at the end! Your coasters/table toppers are great. I love the micro quilting on the first one. Do you use variegated thread for the quilting? Your color choices are always inspire me to take more risks with color.
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I did use variegated thread in that first one. I enjoy using it when I can be pretty sure that all the colors will show up on the quilt top (if I want the quilting to show rather than just be a texture), but it can sometimes be problematic. I once tried to use it for an all over edge to edge design and had it not work out at all because there was one color in the thread that disappeared when it landed on a part of the quilt that had a similar color and value--my design ended up looking very discontinuous--almost like someone had gone behind me and erased parts. As a result, I ended up spending some quality time bonding with my seam ripper
Rob
01-04-2017, 06:53 AM
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What a great tip that I hadn't thought of. Thanks for sharing. I definitely don't like spending quality time with my seam ripper so I will have to audition my variegated threads more carefully.
Originally Posted by rryder
Thanks Silliness,
I did use variegated thread in that first one. I enjoy using it when I can be pretty sure that all the colors will show up on the quilt top (if I want the quilting to show rather than just be a texture), but it can sometimes be problematic. I once tried to use it for an all over edge to edge design and had it not work out at all because there was one color in the thread that disappeared when it landed on a part of the quilt that had a similar color and value--my design ended up looking very discontinuous--almost like someone had gone behind me and erased parts. As a result, I ended up spending some quality time bonding with my seam ripper
Rob
I did use variegated thread in that first one. I enjoy using it when I can be pretty sure that all the colors will show up on the quilt top (if I want the quilting to show rather than just be a texture), but it can sometimes be problematic. I once tried to use it for an all over edge to edge design and had it not work out at all because there was one color in the thread that disappeared when it landed on a part of the quilt that had a similar color and value--my design ended up looking very discontinuous--almost like someone had gone behind me and erased parts. As a result, I ended up spending some quality time bonding with my seam ripper
Rob
01-05-2017, 05:49 AM
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Thanks for running this thread Janet, such a huge number of UFOs finished. Here's the photos of mine.[ATTACH=CONFIG]564983[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]564984[/ATTACH] the other two stockings went out before Christmas.
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]564984[/ATTACH] the other two stockings went out before Christmas.
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