April UFO - mostly done!

How did it get to be May 5th already?  The school year is drawing to a close and life around here is busy.  Maddie was in her school's production of Annie.  Thankfully the play is over and her life is back to normal.  Ian and Stacy have a couple of weeks of soccer left and then we can relax for the summer!  

This BOM was April's UFO.  All that was left to do was add the outer three borders and quilt it.  Getting the borders on was easy enough but then I decided to piece the back.  I wasn't in the mood to go out and buy 6 yards of fabric for the BACK so I dug thru  my black/white stash box and came up with enough fabrics to piece the back.  I am using 14 inch squares - a weird size, I know - but it was the size required to use several of the pieces.  So finishing this quilt did not happen this month but maybe I can get it done in May.

Now then - what is May's project?  My guild's mystery quilt.  This one is ready to be quilted.  Maybe I can get it on the machine today.

What are you working on?

March UFO - Pillowcases

This month's UFO was a pile of fabric waiting to be made into pillowcases for my kids. As I was digging out the fabric, I found some fabric I had purchased to make my nephew a pillowcase over a year ago - Oops! I had made his little brother one for Christmas and my SIL said Denver would love one too. So Denver was the first on my list of to-do's. Thankfully my sweet neighbor lets me use her embroidery machine!


Ian was the big winner this month - scoring a total of three pillowcases. Unfortunately that means he probably stole some pillows off my bed to fill those pillowcases. You can easily figure out the two big loves in Ian's life - soccer and University of Florida football.






Last year on my birthday shop hop, I came across this fabric which is a street map of Paris - and it includes Le Madeleine - the church in Paris that inspired us to use the name Madeleine. We were in Europe for three weeks right before I got pregnant with Maddie and my husband noticed the French spelling of Madeleine and fell in love with it. I was just thankful he had moved on from "Mathilda".




April's UFO is the block of the month - again. This was also January's UFO. Last month was the last block so now there is nothing left to do but put on the final three borders. I got to go to JoAnn's last week in Nashville and found three fabrics to use for the borders. Then on to quilting and binding!

February's UFO finish

Just in the nick of time, I made myself finish my February UFO. It has been quilted for over a week - but since I hate do bindings, it sat here, taunting me as the end of the month drew closer! To start the month, the top needed the final borders and then the quilting. As I was putting on the binding this morning, I got around to the fourth side and discovered this little problem!


Oops! Somewhere my math went awry! Easy enough to fix but it added a little time to the job. Now it is finished and my kids can start fighting over who it belongs to!



The kids will also be excited to learn that March's UFO is to make all the pillowcases I have promised them in the past couple of years. I think I have fabric to make each of them at least two pillowcases. Ian even dragged the fabric out of my project drawer a few weeks ago and told me I needed to get busy!

Thanks, Judy, for inspiring us to get these UFOs out of the way! Check out the other projects over at Sunshine Quilts.

Swoon-Along

Because I am in desperate need of another Quilt-in-progress (sarcasm!), I have joined the Swoon-Along going on on Flickr. It is being hosted by Katy from I'm a Ginger Monkey. Our goal is one block a week - and so far I have remained on track! Each block takes about 2 hours to cut out and sew together but then again the blocks are 24 inches square. I am using Denyse Schmidt's new line of fabric for JoAnn's. If you want to see some great inspiration, go check out the Flickr group! You can just click on the Swoon-Along button in my sidebar.

Maybe that is what I will work on tonight - while the rest of the family watches Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the 100th time.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

January UFO challenge

January's UFO was a BOM I am doing from a local sewing store. We still have three months to go - so there is only so much I can do! I was able to put the sashing and borders around all of the blocks that are already done. I have been doing this block of the month with two of my good friends (and neighbors!). They just started quilting a little over a year ago - so some of these blocks have been a real challenge.

Now to move on to February's UFO - #1 - a Christmas quilt from a class I taught last fall. This one needs the outer border and then the quilting.

Thanks again, Judy, for inspiring us to finish up some of these old projects!