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!