Greg's off for the 2nd Weekend in a ROW! So we are having a UFO Weekend! I innocently thought I didn't have any UFO's - I don't like to buy fabric unless I know what I'm making BUT SURPRISE! I'd actually started and neglected a few that had been started 6 months ago during my recovery time. Greg on the other hand is all UFO's in progress... there's bags, hangings, project boards galore. He had to give the program at our quilt meeting in March and decided (A YEAR AGO) to present his purple people project - following Raymond Houston's method.
It's already in many stages and lends itself to a demo. There's also the quilt of the month blocks unfinished, a few dozen swap projects, and a really cool comet star thing that he's started w/o worrying about having the fabric to finish!
AND since I've vowed we will not buy more fabric until we use up what we have -- he's just SOL on that one.
SO my projects: When we got the Accuquilt GO! cutter and accumulated some dies - I decided I'd make a double wedding ring and had cut exactly 6 pieces of 3 shapes before I realize I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I was using some F8's of thee sweet and sour collection from Connecting threads. I really didn't have enough and was just playing but the pieces were still all together so That's my main project this weekend. We found some coordinating pieces and I watched Ebony's videos on the Double Wedding Ring (LoveBug Studios) over and over until I felt like I "got-it".
SO my projects: When we got the Accuquilt GO! cutter and accumulated some dies - I decided I'd make a double wedding ring and had cut exactly 6 pieces of 3 shapes before I realize I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I was using some F8's of thee sweet and sour collection from Connecting threads. I really didn't have enough and was just playing but the pieces were still all together so That's my main project this weekend. We found some coordinating pieces and I watched Ebony's videos on the Double Wedding Ring (LoveBug Studios) over and over until I felt like I "got-it".
Note to GO users - there are variations between the Accuquilt Studio Die and the GO die for the Double Wedding Ring. When I finish this little project - I still have the Paper Piecing Calendar set to work on that I started with my mom during my recovery.
I really am thinking about abandoning the Calendar and using the monthly blocks as a quilt. But I'm betting even if I made the whole thing I'd still be done with my UFO's long before Greg!!! OH! Great news - after knocking the iron on the floor several times tonight Greg finally modified the ironing board to have a hook to hang the iron on. We have plans to build and extended ironing board with a cabinet under --- right now that's under PYS -- "Projects Yet to Start" !
You are so disciplined if you only have those few UFO's....I just can't do it. I get bored with most projects long before they are done....so it's either not sew at all OR start something else....and I always opt to start something else. LOL
ReplyDeleteI have a ton of UFO's, I'd need more than a weekend to finish them. More like a year! I love the ducks.
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