Have too many UFOs! But hope to get some Christmas sewing done tonight

Haven't done much sewing this year..... I did rebuilt a KILT and make a new Velvet Highland Dance Jacket.

Tonight I am sewing with Friday Night with Friends

Hand Pieced QAL

Wow!  It's been a while!

This year I thought I would try the Hand Pieced QAL at Elm Street Quilts ~ Elm Street Quilts.

Here is block 1

April UFO Challenges

All People Quilt UFO Challenge April #11 New York Beauties Quilt ~ 7 Blocks Completed
This is going to be fun.... no clue what to do with the seven blocks....

Must dig them out.... maybe make 1 more 1/4 circle?   And then into a grey background?



UFO Progress

List #1

• January: Donation Quilt -- COMPLETE
• February: Sew Happy Geek QAL -- on longarm
• March: Christmas Quilt -- finish last side of binding and add a label

List #2

• January - Dresden Table Topper -- borders added.
• February - Maple Leaf Quilt -- borders added, backing made, binding ready. Ready for Longarm!
• March - RCMP Quilts -- all 4 are ready for the longarm!

New Projects for 2017

• Preemie Quilts -- 2 completed

April Goals

This month the goal is to hit the longarm and quilt 5 quilts!   One is on the longarm already, and the other 4 RCMP Quilts needs quilting....

One Monthly Goal:  Get the quilt on the frame done!

Currently on the Frame!

March Progress & Finishes

March started with a Highland dance competition, then band weekend, Celtic festival and now finished with another large highland dance competition.  I organize 6 competitions a year, one is the first weekend of March, another, the first weekend of April.  This year that means organizing for both happens in March!  YUCK!   Here are a couple of photos of the Kilts & Jackets I made dancing at the Celtic Festival.

My first Kilt made - Raspberry Menzies!  
Swinging on my 11yo

A Tribute to JL McKenzie
Kilt: Raspberry Reverse MacKellar

Binding is half stitched on and sitting in the van for a day I have time while at kids activities

Binding attached.   

My goal was to have the top finished.  I got 2 RCMP quilt tops finished.  All 4 are ready for the longarm!

Quilt i-4:  top Finished

Quilt i-2:  Top Finished

Elm Street Quilts: One Montly Goal: My March goal is to finish all 4 RCMP Memorial Quilt tops. They are all ready for the longarm. Bindings have been cut out. And backings are pressed. Just waiting on the project that is currently on the longarm.

Bonus Project:  UFO List 2 #9 Maple Leaf Quilt

Finished the borders on this quilt, backing is pieced and binding cut and pressed.  Its all ready for the longarm.

March Goals

March!

UFO List 1: All People Quilt UFO Challenge #12
All it needs is binding!    Binding is cut out.  

UFO List 2: Judy at Patchwork Times UFO Challenge #5
This is one of the RCMP Memorial Quilts.  My goal it to have it pieced.  And with luck, quilted!

One Montly Goal: My March goal is to finish all 4 RCMP Memorial Quilt tops and prepare the backings and bindings. First 2 are completed, one is ready for final assembly and one needs sashing and borders.

Other February Progress

UFO List 1: All People Quilt UFO Challenge #8 - Project "S" from 2012! Sew Happy Geek QAL GOAL: Quilt and square it up. Find the Binding. Its on the Quilt frame. I've done the feathered boarder and am doing the horizontal sashing -- all vertical sashing is done. Then I have the 12 blocks to quilt. Binding was with the Quilt. I won't quite be finished tomorrow, but it did get loaded on the frame, and progress was made.

UFO List 1 #8:   On the longarm!

Other progress was made this month.... I started, completed and donated 2 preemie quilts, to my quilt guilds challenge "Sea to Sky".

Here are photos of some of the projects I worked on from my 2017 Project List.  I also worked on:

• Project L:  Centre of top assembled, need 8 9-patches for outer side sashing
• Project I-4:  12 blocks sashed, need trimming

Project M: Quilting Finished

Project I-1: Borders Added

Project I-3: Top Pieced.

Project I-1:  My block

Project H:  Piecing steps 8 & 9 continue

February UFO Progress

UFO List 2 #9 Maple Leaf Block: As I'd feared, my block was missing the centre "triangle" pattern piece. The cat had pulled it out from the stack and attacked it.....

Current Status:  I have cut out the binding, and 2 more borders.  I need to pickup some solid white fabric for a narrow border, but have the rest ready to go.  

Goal:  My goal was to figure out whether this was worth saving.  I saved it, and finished the centre block.  Hope to get it to lap size, and quilt it for my dad.   Think I'll need to find some red, black and white backing....

Finished Paper Piece  (without the Centre Block)

Created the Centre block!

Adding Borders

Now 30" square.... 

I am still planning on getting to the longarm. It has the UFO List 1 #6 on it! So it is ready to quilt!

Not a UFO! February Preemie Quilt

My quilt guild does a February Preemie Quilt Challenge.  This year the theme is Sea to Sky.... So this week I remembered!  Meeting was supposed to be tonight, but the meeting was rescheduled until next week due to snow.  That's ok because my quilt just needs the binding stitched down.  I will finish that tonight while watching a movie....

Airplanes

Sailboats

Layout....

Basted!   Another quilt is on the longarm,
so I basted this one, to quilt on my sewing machine.

Quilt Top

Quilting on my sewing machine!
Now where are my gloves?

Ready for stitching down the binding!