UFO Challenge Check-in 8

 Wow, 8 weeks of steady work on my UFOs has really helped me accomplish quite a bit of work!  I finished another quilt this week - Blue and Yellow Reflections.  I could not decided how to finish it, but in the end the quilt told me it wanted me to do it all in the curved outlines, so that's what I did.  I am very happy with the results!

I added a dark blue binding, and the back is pieced with some chickens in blue and strips of leftover fabric.  Yay for a little more fabric out of my stash!  Now I really need to get some more quilts basted this week.  I have three that have backs and are ready, I just need to get the batting figured out.  I'm using up all the random pieces of that as well!

I made four more Oddfellow's Star units.  Only 6 left, and I think I might go ahead and do all of them this week so I can lay out the blocks to see how they are going to look!  Then I'll have to remove the papers, which will take a while! 

I finished appliqueing the two EPP blocks I pieced last week.

Both of these had some raw edge applique done by machine as well.

They came out really well!

And I got the next two blocks pieced and appliqued.  They are really cute as well!  Both of these also need some hand embroidery, so that will be done this week.

And last, but not least I finished another Dogwood block.  That makes a total of 8 I have done and I have four more ready for stitching.  That makes 12, so I might play around with how they will lay out and decided if I am done with the blocks.  

So not a bad week!  I am deciding what piecing I want to take on next.  I know that Alice's Wonderland needs a whole lot of diamond in a square units for the border, so it might be a good time to get started on those, and I have a Giant Dahlia quilt that needs a pieced border as well.  I think I'd like to choose fabrics for that - it's batik, so always fun to dig through those!

I'm happy with my progress, and even started something new this week, so that was fun!  It's a Christmas project so I need to make sure that's a finish before too long.  Just a small quilt.  But it might be a couple of table runners as well...we'll see!  Hope your week is productive as well!

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!