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....

July (& April) UFO Challenge Finish!!!

Miracle of Miracles I finished the July UFO Challenge!  This was a top I made way back when I first started quilting and I have no idea what I was thinking when I picked the fabric.  I'm guessing it was a fat quarter bundle of a single fabric in all it's color ways....and like a doofus I put them all in the same quilt top.  Ick.  The challenge for this top was to put on borders and call it a top.  Well, I just didn't like it At.All.  So......I cut it in half, which minimized the matchy matchy and then bordered both halves and VOILA!  I've got two nice donation quilts!  The pattern is from Kwik Krazy.

Earlier this year the number 11 was chosen for April's UFO challenge...it was to quilt the finished Phat Kats quilt top.  And in keeping with the Cosmic Plan that I only seem to be able to complete something every other month, my HQ16 got sick and I couldn't finish the quilting.  She's been to her spa treatment (thank you Spring Water Designs!) and has been working great so I finished up and now (3 months too late to count...) it is a completed quilt!  Phat Kats is from an Erin Underwood pattern:

Sewing Machine Cover

I finished a top of bright and scrappy fabrics…and something just didn't look right about it. I had fussy cut some fun centers for one of the rows from a Mary Lou Weidman fabric that I liked…but the "realistic" centers in that row looked really out of place. Now, normally, I just let things like this go - I really like it to be DONE when it's done. But this row just screamed GET ME OUT OF HERE!! So I bit the bullet and picked it out, made new blocks and reassembled. The finished top:

Here's a detail:

BUT…(there is always a but(t))

I still thought the other blocks were fun and didn't want them to get buried in the Black Hole of miscellaneous blocks. SO - I made new sewing machine covers out of them!!!

VOILA!

(The blocks were made from a set of Kwik Krazy patterns)