2016 UFO Challenge - October

I've pulled the top and set it on the HQ16....but there's simply no way on this Earth that I'll quilt it before the end of the month...No.Way.At.All.

If I already had a back, it might have been possible....

UFO Challenge 2016 - April Update

It's like the UFO Gods are against me...got my April UFO loaded on the HQ16, managed to get one pass done, and VOILA! I've got issues...

First, my thread was breaking. Fine - I look up what to do: adjusted tension, double checked the threading, changed the thread, changed the needle, etc...but it seemed like every time I did something, then something else got a little screwy. Finally the poor HQ16's timing got messed up and now my bobbin thread wasn't getting picked up. At that point I figured if I kept trying to fix each of these problems I'd end up with a completely broken machine! So I very sensibly took my girl into Spring Water Designs for a good cleaning and service.

It looks lonely without her...

So near and yet so far - an "almost" UFO finish...hmmm...I wonder if I could have entered it anyway??? I mean, I had quilted SOME of it! My UFO list only says to quilt it - no mention whatsoever about quilting ALL of it!!!!!

The quilt is from the Phat Cats pattern by Erin Underwood.

SNOW STORM 2016!!!

I'll post about the snow tomorrow. I had these pictures already set up...

Here is my guest bed quilt - Barnsley - completed in 2015. This is Bonnie Hunter's Jamestown Landing pattern, started in a class at Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, PA. While hers was blues and neutrals, my "blues" are blues, greens and purples.

Here's the beginning - step one - make a gazillion half square triangles...O.M.G.

All loaded up on the HQ16:

It is so great in the new house that there is plenty of room to set up the HQ16 full length so easy peasy to load this bad boy!

And VOILA! My delightfully charming guest room: