Re: What is your favourite UFO...and why isn't it finished???

My favourite is the Red Star (in my photo album) and I have no idea why.

I'm lying. I know why. I have to figure out how to make the set in triangles to finish off the edges to make it square and I'm lazy...lazy...lazy... I keep hoping that when I pick it up every now and then, it will have somehow finished itself because I'd really like to see it finished!

Hmm, maybe I'll work on that next. Good idea!

My favorite UFO is my Blue and White RCTQ quilt.

At the end of my first year of quilting a RCTQ friend from Essex sent me four panels with different quilty pictures on them . I put them in a quilt top with blue and white fabrics and the siggy squares from about 20 RCTQers then I added prairie points and then of all things a wide white ruffle. Sound like I was done no I wasn't. Another friend RCTQ friend sent me some whimsical buttons these had various ladies faces on them. These were applied to the top. Then I went to the Huge Houston Quilt show and found a quilting stencil I loved. I came home sandwiched it with cotton batting and a wow backing. Put it on my Quilting frame and have been slowly hand quilting this UFO for 3 1/2 years. (Did I mention it is King size.) DH calls it my work in progress not a UFO. Why is it not finished I want it to be completely hand quilted by me.(sentimental reasons)

Diana in Dallas

I love your Red Star. Always have! You keep thinkin' on it, or better yet, write to Lady Lester, Grande Dilemma Dissolver! That thing is way worth finishing.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Well my UFOs are really WIPs because I haven't been quilting long--only this year. The tops I have finished but not quilted yet are because I am waiting for me to gain enough experience to do them justice. I can MQ OK but getting the backs on straight is my problem, so trying some smaller pieces and different techniques so that I dont screw up the good stuff later on.

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

So many to choose from. They are all unfinished because I am too, too busy . . .

Maybe my favorite is a top made from old shirting fabric, very soft colors. I took the pattern from an old quilt top that I was too cheap to buy. Very simple block pattern; it consists of a horizontal rectangle, with two vertical rectangle's underneath. The blocks are set in straight rows, flipped, to give a woven effect.

==== x x ==== x x x x x x x x x x xx x x ==== xx

where === represents the horizontal rectangle, and the x's represent the vertical rectangles.

I love this top; I made it after I made single Irish chain in blues, grays and shirting fabrics. I like making tops in pairs.

lisae

Lynne > Just wonderin'!

My favourite UFO is my 'cat' quilt. It is just a WUH. It is four blocks with a cat appliquéd in each; with flying geese sashing. The cats are echo quilted. The blocks are each a different size; but average about 14" I should think without measuring. The reason it is not finished is because I simply cannot decide whether or not to put a border on it. It has the sashing between the cats; and I was just going to put a binding on (I never used to put a border on anything!). Now I am becoming a little more pro border and the doubt has arisen. The background to the cats (which are done in four different natural cat colours) is aqua cracked ice; and the geese are various yellows on greyish blue with clouds sky fabric. If anyone has an opinion I'd be glad to hear it? . In article , Lynne in Toronto writes

My favorite is an Irish Chain quilt with colored 'chain' of Y2K swap pieces and the white made of sig squares that came with them. I had some unsigned places and keep adding new sig squares in their place. It may never really get it finished, but I have a lot of fun seeing and remembering quilters when I get it out to work on. The backing materials are from Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.

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probably my scrappy corduroy quilt because it is *all* mine! It's not finished yet because I can't bend enough to pin the binding down for sewing . I had thought it would get done before I needed it, but it may be that it doesn't get done until the first of the year.

Larisa

Lynne >

Great question! Mine is a lap quilt made from fabric I found in Key West on one of our vacations. I fell in love with Key West and found wild fabric that has "Key West" written throughout the pattern. It's in colors that are definitely not me, but I love it! It was also one of the quilts that my DH was very active in helping to choose the fabrics. The top is done, the backing is made and I found the stencil I want to use for the quilting pattern - waves. This will be the first one I work on after all my "requireds" are finally finished. Does that ever happen???

LOL, I think of you every time I look at it! too funny.

Marijke

I only really have one -- my son's Wizards & Warriors quilt. I just need to quilt and bind it. I have been trying to improve my FMQ skills before tackling it, and have also been putting it off because it's bigger than anything else I've made so far and I'm not relishing the thought of layering and basting it. But, after I finish piecing the YBR I'm making for DH (I have the blocks all pieced and just need to assemble rows) I promised I would pick up and finish W&W (I think I will send DH's YBR off to be quilted).

Now, if you count projects for which I've purchased fabric, but have not yet begun, then the list gets longer!

Ann

yet, write to Lady Lester, Grande Dilemma Dissolver! That thing is way worth finishing. Karen, Queen of Squishies

Thanks, Marijke. That was today's happy funny. I think maybe I keep hoping the same thing. Polly

Marijke wrote (snipped) I keep hoping that when I pick it up every now and then, it will have somehow

That is an incredibly loving and giving thing for you to do! My son's adoptive mom is always doing things for my DD, and it just really warms my heart. But then again, they've always known each other. Either way, it's a really great thing!

Coincidentally I sorted out my UFO's last night and some of the projects that I want to start. But now that I've finished an I Spy, A Hug for a friend, 3 summer quilts for my granddaughters, 7 little dresses, 14 pairs of shorts, 6 pillows etc etc, I'm ready to finished my UFO's -- 3 angel pictures for my granddaughters', and a lap quilt for me

-- before starting my next projects. But I might just be tempted to start my youngest granddaughter's quilt before too long.

Hugs and Sunny Days Nina

Lynne >

Just wonderin' Lynne.........what is YOUR fav UFO and why isn't it finished?

Ann

Hullo Alice I really like that new (to me) use of the word 'requireds'. Now I can designate all the quilts-that-I-have-to-finish-by-a-certain-time as 'RQ's', for short. Thank you for the clue!! I have 14 'RQ's' to make and finish by the end of January (mostly small

- 24"). This is, of course, another reason why my UFO doesn't get finished. It is not an RQ. . In article , AliceW writes

You're quite welcome, Patti. I didn't mean to invent a new word and this one looked funny when I typed it but it fits so I left it. I like your "RQs" version. They are the opposite of WTs (want-tos). This could be fun! Gotta start a list for this stuff.