Monday, November 02, 2026

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!)

My Oregon Coast Row Quilt

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!

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