I think I told you all about the UFO challenge our local quilt guild runs each year? Because we meet in a local elementary school, our guild year runs from September through June, with the summer off. In October, you turn in a detailed list of the UFO's you want to complete during the year.
For each UFO on your list, you put $1.00 in the pot. During the year, as you complete your UFO's, and show them at Sew and Tell, the coordinator marks them as completed on your list. At the June meeting, a drawing is held. For every completed UFO, you get your name in the pot again. So If I had 10 UFO's on my list, I put $10 in the pot. If I finished 7 of my UFO's, my name goes in the drawing 7 times. The first name drawn gets one half of the money. The second and third names drawn get a quarter each! It's a fun way to earn money while finishing up your UFO's, right?
Well, it's only a week until our last meeting on June 1st. My UFO list has 20 things on it. I am trying hard to finish them all. I've got # 17 ready to quilt today...then only two left!! Keep your fingers crossed for me, OK?
So, one of the things on my list, was to finish the sewing cross stitch I had been working on at bee, when I had no quilts to bind. I don't take my sewing machine to bees...just hand work.
I was really into cross stitch back in the 80's....then I lost interest. I have found I still do like doing it, so now I keep a project in my bee bag, all the time.
Another UFO on my list, is this cute little house quilt. It started as a kit from Connecting Threads...but in the end, I used my sewing themed scraps to make it.
I'm taking down my old Mary Engelbreit sewing themed quilt that hangs over The Queen Mother, aka my HQ Sweet 16 Sit Down machine,
(you can see it on the right side of this pix)
and replacing it with a collection of small mini-quilts... so these two will be up there, soon!
You remember my adorable grandson, Neal?
He continues to wrap us all around his little fingers. I love making fun things for him!! I made a bopple ball for him. He is teething and does not like to chew on hard things, but loves to chew on fabric like bibs and his bopple ball arms!!
Isn't he just the cutest baby ever???? Those EYES!!
Yogi is dying to know what cute things YOU are making today??
Our local quilt guild chapter, Haymarket Quilters Unlimited, has a little quilt show going on this month.
We have a wonderful committee of girls who collected the quilts and set up the displays and manned the weekend hours.
The quilt show name is "Quilting Colorful Seasons of Love".
So the committee collected quilted items for each season and holiday.
The Haymarket Museum is right downtown and was originally a very small clapboard church.
And when I say small...I am not kidding.
When our local wonderful quilt shop, Oh Sew Persnickety, got in the new Tula Pink fabric collection, Slow and Steady, I fell in love!!
So, I just had to make it up in a quilt!!
I love, love, love the cheddary orange print, so I used it for the background.
It's a simple design made of traditional blocks by May Chappell called "Squiggly Bits".
It was a fun and easy quilt to piece!
Just a few new pix of my adorable grandson, Neal!!
He is so very precious...
and so very, very loved!!
Yogi has met Neal, but with his almost total loss of hearing and limited vision, he wasn't too interested until Neal started crying loudly. Then Yogi started looking around, as he can not tell anymore where loud noises are coming from. :-(
Now that Halloween is over, the holidays always seem to rush up on us!! Are you madly sewing up gifts by now? I am!!
