JPgirl: I got nosy and checked out the Quilter's Cache Site, owned by Marcia Hahn. Yep, the Four Winds block is there. It is a pretty block. That is a terrific site!
I know what you mean about being critical of our own work. Don't we all do that?
PAT in VA/USA
Tablecloth? PAT
IIRC I do have a UFO about 10 years old, 16 feathered star blocks for a queen-size quilt that I started when DD1 got engaged. Didn't feel like working on it after they broke it off. The blocks are done, need sashing and assembling, and quilting of course. Roberta in D
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I've only been quilting for about 5 years so my UFO's are fairly young comparitively. I think my oldest is 5 years old though. My applique quilt. It is just sitting as a top waiting for me to hand quilt it. I am making plans to do so here as soon as a get the baby afghan I'm working on done. Then it is going to hang in my dinning room.
Thanksgiving 1966, eldest bro and SIL announce the forthcoming 1st baby. I started a crib quilt the following week. How very exciting! Seemed like a good idea at the time. Quilt not finished when baby arrived.
Worked on quilt for the arrival another SIL's baby....didn't finish.
Worked on quilt for the 1st SIL's second baby....didn't finish.
Worked on quilt for MY baby's impending arrival.....didn't finish.
Worked on quilt for other various baby's impending arrivals.....still didn't finish.
This UFO still resides with the original House of Fabrics (no longer exists around here) bag. The bag is paper and somewhat worse for wear, it's in a large Nordstrom's dress box with all the assorted scraps and such and the original receipt... (I actually dug into the UFO this morning to see what all was still in there.)...dated Nov, 29, 1966 - $16.37. I must have really splurged on the fabric at a $1.59 a yard. All that's left to do is the binding. Maybe, just maybe, I'll finish this for my first grandchild.
Val
No. I think the oldest one I have now is less than 5 years old, and all it needs is quilting.
Julia > Julia:
Love the story, Val!
My oldest UFO right now is only a few months old--I had sabbatical over the holidays and went on a quilting bender, as it were, to finish up all my oldest projects at that point, although I've only been quilting for a few years and only really had time for it starting about 18 months ago so I hadn't amassed too many at that point. The longest-term-work-in-progress was my daughter's bed quilt that was 7 years old by the time it was finished for Christmas. My family had been giving me a hard time about how long it was a UFO until I helped my Mom sort through some of her quilting stash, and we unearthed several UFOs that were at least 15 years...and some maybe even 20 or
25 years...in progress. Now they know that my UFO was just a baby!On some quilting newsgroup or another that I'm on somebody actually defined a UFO in a way to even include something you'd really only thought about doing (IOW, drawn out or marked in a book or something). Now, if that's our definition, I'd have a quadrillion UFOs waiting to be done!
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:14:47 -0500, Pat in Virginia wrote (in article ):
Mine date back to about 2001 or 2002. But I'd only started quilting in 1999. So they're pretty old for me.
Maureen
Well .... Here is how *I* define a UFO for my own sewing room. I count any unfinished project that has the fabric actually cut and/or stitched. (Generally, in my mind a Work in Progress (WIP) is one that I've has seen some action the last year, while UFO is one I did NOT work during the previous year. Defining some as WIP makes me feel better. LOL) This does not mean that other people can't have other definitions .... but it is my sewing room, so my choice. (In this case, it was my question, so I used my same definition.) Works for me! ;) PAT in VA/USA
You go, Gurl! LOL, PAT
I was going ask that too Julia! I bought an uncompleted quilt top in the US in '04, bordered and hand quilted it. It's in my quilt album at webshots. The quilt top had been started in the 1940's. Now it graces my guest bed and looks great. It did take me 2 years to give it my full attention. Cheers Bronnie
just got your email, pondering the cost, eeeeeeeeeeeek. :) j.
"Br> I was going ask that too Julia!
Its the airfare that'll kill you, not the class cost
Bronnie
Your finished top sounds lovely! How nice that you rescued and finished someone else's very old project. So, Bronnie, do you have any Unfinished Objects lurking in your sewing room, or are you all caught up? PAT in VA/USA
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