UFO Challenge Check-in 7

 I don't feel like I have made as much progress over the last week - I've been spending a lot of time on the computer working on new quilt designs and revamping some old ones!  Here is a cute row quilt I made back in 2016 (wow, 10 years goes by fast!)

The pattern is now available in my Etsy shop!  It's all spiffied up and ready to download - you can see the original post for the pattern here. So onward to the UFO's...

Four more Oddfellows Star blocks finished.  10 more to go!

One more Dogwood block done as well!

I still need to applique the blocks for Alice's Wonderland Sampler Quilt, but tonight is monday night football, so I can do that this evening.  

I was in the mood for machine quilting, so I worked on CityScape!  I chose a design from Cheryl Malkowski's Doodle Quilting Mania book and really like the results.

You can really see it on the back!  I am really pleased with this one!  I used Quilter's Dream Deluxe Poly on this one, it's a nice dense batting, not as drapey as the lighter weights, but it's lovely to quilt with! And it shows up the quilting nicely.

Sorry for the bad picture - I will give this quilt its own post later with some nicer photos.  I also sewed up the rest of the half square triangles I had cut for the mystery project!  Plenty for another quilt, but I am setting those aside for now and moving on to another UFO!  I did add borders to the basket quilt as well as sewing together a back.  I'll baste a few quilts this week, I think.  Unless something else calls my name!

And I did start quilting this Reflections quilt!  I have all the dark squares done and am deciding how to finish the light and medium squares.  I might just keep doing the curved echo over the whole quilt. This one has Dream Poly Select so is softer and more cuddly! 

I also did some more organizing in my quilt room.  I had a basket with fabrics for another project that I had only made one block for.  I decided that I didn't need to finish that one, so the block will be made into a mug rug, and the fabric goes back into my stash.  I'm starting another list of UFOs as I find them.  I think some will be like this one, but some I will want to work on finishing after I get this set done! I've noticed things are already looking a bit better and less chaotic, so that's a big win! Another big win is that I haven't missed any days of working on my WIP's for the WIPsBGone challenge!  Am having fun filling in my coloring sheet each day!  When this is over I might just have to start my own personal challenge.

My frustration this week has been that a credit card was compromised, and it's the one I use for a lot of bills!  So I had to go in and change the account on all of them.  What a pain!  Plus, for some reason ICloud isn't syncing to my laptop anymore.  That is really aggravating me, but I'll figure it out eventually.  It does give me a good excuse to download things and organize them into files so I can find them when I need them, though.  I hope this week is less frustrating and more sewing!

UFO Challenge Check-in 6

 This week was a good one for quilting time, and I used it to good advantage to make progress on my list!  No quilting this week, but I did break out a new project to make progress on.

I think it needs just one more solid border, then it will be done.  This project started out as a huge pile of half square triangles, some sewn and some just cut out.  I had in mind a basket quilt, but I have no clue why I just started cutting and sewing half square triangles with no specific count in mind!  Anyway, I still have enough half square triangles to make another project, but unless I get really inspired, I think I will just finish sewing them all, then package them up for a future project.  After all, I'll need more projects to finish next year, right?

This is about 1/4 of the triangles that I've been sewing!

And here is a pile of sewn ones ready to be pressed!  It was a fun project for the week and was almost as fun as starting something new!

I finished four more blocks for the Oddfellows Star project.  I think I have about 5 more weeks of sewing for this one, and then I can get the top laid out and sewn together.  I think it'll be pretty!

One more Dogwood block is finished.  I just have a few more blocks that are ready to sew, then I'll need to decide if I want to make more or finish it with what I have.  I'm really not sure, but I guess I will see how many blocks I have and go from there.  

Two more blocks done for Alice's Wonderland Sampler!  This one is number 71 - it was fun to fussy cut the peacock feathers for this one.  I did think several times that it would have been easier to piece this one than to use EPP, but it came out pretty well.

This one is number 70, so I am over halfway done with the EPP now!  Woohoo!  The last 20 blocks are machine applique, so should go quickly, but I'll have to figure out another hand-work project for evening television time.  Of course there is the paper removal from the Oddfellow's Star blocks.  Maybe I'll do some cross-stitch or embroidery.  With wetter and colder weather arriving it's a good time of year for stitching in the recliner!

That's a wrap for this week (I did finish a secret project, but I can't share that quite yet) Wishing you all a productive and enjoyable last week of October!

UFO CHallenge Check-in 5

 Another good week of progress on the UFO pile.  I actually got two quilts finished this week, and made progress on several other projects.

I made four more units for Odd Fellows Star.  I also counted the number of units left to be made, found I was short 9 foundations and was able to scan one and make the copies for the rest.  I have about 5 more weeks worth of units to sew before I can start putting together the top.  I'm happy with the slow progress on this one, so plan to keep up the pace.

I was in need of some instant gratification, so I finished up this mini quilt.  I made it with leftover units from a larger project, and it's been in the pile, basted and ready for quilting.  Now it's quilted and bound.  I just finished this with stitch in the ditch back and forth around the squares.  It looks good!

Then I decided that I needed to replenish my supply of basted quilts, so I took care of this one since I had got the backing all ready to go.  I think I am going to quilt this with flowers, but what color of thread?  Guess it's time to go through my stash and see what will look good with it!  Probably a pink, since the back is that bright fuschia color.

While I was at it, I basted this one, too.  Since it was a small one, I went ahead and quilted that as well!

My supervisor, making sure I did the job right!

Moving on to Alice's Wonderland - I got my two blocks prepped and pieced!

I was particularly pleased with the fussy cutting on this one!  It features the Liberty London store! They are also now appliqued onto the background.

And another dogwood block is button-hole stitched.  I think this week I'll have to go through the remaining blocks, and the pieces that are prepped.  Some of them are missing their mates, so I need to figure out how many blocks are ready to go, and see if I can't get more of them matched up and ready to stitch.

Last, but not least I decided to pull out this container and try to figure out what in the world I was thinking with all the purple half square triangles!  I seem to have way more than I really need for the project I have in mind.  Time to actually put the blocks together and determine what to do with all of this!  Next time I need to leave a note to my future self telling me what I was thinking, because at this point I have no clue.  I made all of the basket blocks I had in mind, and I have some ideas for what to do with the rest of the triangles, but I need to count them and see if it will work!  

Of course I had a block that ended up not quite as it should have!  I have fixed it now, glad I caught it before I sewed them together!  I'm kind of excited to work on this now, so I'm pretty sure I'll have more progress to report next week!

I think that's the fun part of working on UFOs - finding the excitement that I had when I first started the project.  Not every project sparks like that, but this one has. It's almost as fun as starting something new!  And we all know that feeling!