Well, the UFOs are beginning to stack up. Two weeks ago, I began to prepare projects to take on a 4 day Quilt Retreat. While rooting through boxes, baskets and bags looking for the missing fabrics I needed to complete several projects, I came across several more UFOs. I have now run out of hangers to hang quilt tops on . . . it's getting pretty ugly. I ended up taking 11 projects with me and completed 7 of them, so I am excited! I am going to be burning up my longarm quilting these 7 tops!
I finished the quilt top on the left for myself. Both of my daughters saw it and said they'd like one too, went back to look at what fabric I had left and I have enough to make 3 more if I purchase some more background. So guess what's on my Design Frame today? I saw this quilt on Ruthie's blog a couple of years ago before leaving on a trip to Hawaii. I printed a picture of her finished quilt and took it with me while fabric shopping in Hawaii. It turned ugly as I purchased so much fabric that I had to add another duffel bag to our luggage . . . Here is another project I took on Retreat with me. It's an Alphabet quilt and the blocks are from an online swap. I had to re-piece a couple of the paper pieced blocks, sash all the blocks and then I found the pencil fabric I used in the border at an Amish Quilt Shop.
Two of the 11 projects I took with me I thought would only take less than an hour to complete, like the finished quilt top that had and upside down block - - it took me 3 hours to fix that one. The other one had two rows sewn on upside down - that took an extraordinary amount of time too, but I got it done. I was beginning to feel that I wasn't going to have much to show, but by the time we left late Monday afternoon, I had 7 projects that are now ready to be quilted! Usually after Quilt Retreat I don't unpack my machine for a week or two, but this time, I unpacked it as soon as I got home and continued working!
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