I've been pondering today why a UFO becomes a UFO. My opinion of a UFO is something that you've completely lost interest in working on and may never finish it unless by sheer magic, you open the box it was stored in and instantly fall in love with it all over again. I don't consider most of what I have UFO's as much as I consider them WIP's.
Most of my quilting spills over into all parts of the house, so, when Company is coming over, the quickest way to tidy up is to start throwing stuff into baskets and storing them out of sight (see my opening paragraph about Hide and Seek). Of course, I'm usually working on more than one project at a time (what an understatement), so bits and pieces seem to get misplaced quite often.
Today I uncovered this project that I started before the holidays. This was my first attempt at machine quilting, but I thought the border needed to be hand quilted. And, all that was left to do was about 10 minutes worth of hand quilting and the binding. While waiting for my tea water to boil, I finished the hand quilting on one side of the border, but now I can't find the fabric that I planned to use for the binding -- or did I even have a plan?
Most of my quilting spills over into all parts of the house, so, when Company is coming over, the quickest way to tidy up is to start throwing stuff into baskets and storing them out of sight (see my opening paragraph about Hide and Seek). Of course, I'm usually working on more than one project at a time (what an understatement), so bits and pieces seem to get misplaced quite often.
Today I uncovered this project that I started before the holidays. This was my first attempt at machine quilting, but I thought the border needed to be hand quilted. And, all that was left to do was about 10 minutes worth of hand quilting and the binding. While waiting for my tea water to boil, I finished the hand quilting on one side of the border, but now I can't find the fabric that I planned to use for the binding -- or did I even have a plan?
After searching and searching, I was able to locate the blue fabric that I used in the border, but the pattern calls for the gold fabric as a binding. I wasted a lot more time searching for the gold fabric. Now, my dilemma is - do I use the blue or the gold? Why didn't I just use the blue and be done with it? My goal is to have the binding on this baby, so that I can do the hand-stitching while watching the Super Bowl on Sunday evening. I'm also hoping that this finish with inspire more finishes in 2007. You'll have to stop back and see what I decided to use.
I also laundered and ironed the Heather Bailey fabric for Amy Butler's Swing Purse. Wow, talk about getting two designer's names in one sentence....Isn't this fabric so spring-like? This is going to be put away together and at least I have my Blog photo to remember what I was going to do with it.I now have 15 of the 18 stars blanket stitched for the Cookie Cutter Quilt. Since I've decided to do the February Fabric Diet (Thanks Kim W. for the code), I feel like I'm on a roll with using up some of this stuff that I have. Now, if I can just keep up the momentum.
Bailey is lying patiently in wait for the mailman to arrive....and I've been all over the map with this post. So, now I'm off to work on that binding.
