Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

Hooking up to One Monthly goal over at Elm Street Quilts to show my results of sewing in the month of January.  Here's what I said I would do.   http://quiltinglikeamaniac.blogspot.com/2020/01/american-patchwork-quilting-2020-ufo.html .  Now I have to say (and this is no excuse) I lost my machine for close to two weeks so there was no sewing.  I went through withdrawal and now I KNOW I need to get an extra machine for situations like this because truthfully there is never a loaner with all the work they do at the repair shop.  And it always takes a week or two to get the work done.  So I need something portable, small, and does just the basics to make me happy when I have to send mine in for repairs.  So many people were giving me that advice and after that experience they're right.  But for now, I got my baby back and I've been busy to catch up.  Here's what I did along with my promise to get my goal done. I've been trying hard to finish one of the BOM

OMG I have a modern quilt that needs finishing (quilting) by the end of the month!  And then there's my OMG quilt for the month goal, as well as my APQ challenge to finish #2 on my list of quilts I want done this year!!!  Let alone the starting of two BOMs which I had no intention of starting any BOMs so I can clear all the UFO's (my goodness all these acronyms) I have to do.... I put a rush on my machine but this really tells me I need a standby machine or rather a smaller machine then my baby (Janome 6060) so I can take it to some of the classes I go to or the other quilt group that I'm part of.  Lesson learned, but talk about withdrawal.  I told the facebook group of APQ that my machine broke, and all the girls started to give me the best advice: Get one, two, or three extras, buy used machines from friends buy a new one. Get one at Walmart or Joanne's do hand work (been doing this one) cut your other projects organize your sewing room Lots of great

Quilting Gail is helping to teach us quilters how to get through our UFOs, with an analysis of why the UFOs are unfinished, and how to get through them.  This is help that I really need.  I continue to buy kits, or new patterns that I really want to do, to join all these Blocks of the Months online, that are free and so beautiful, and although I do make a lot of quilts ( 21 in 2019 - see this link to see them all ) and finish a lot of the BOMs I need to organize my hobby room, because it's just getting too much to handle.  And organize means getting some of the UFOs completed (or that's at least part of what needs to be done) that are in containers.  There everywhere.   So there's questions to completed, or rather questions to consider and answer truthfully.  But before I do that I need to list all my UFOs.  Now that's a very long list, so don't be surprised because like most quilters I'm a fabricaholic.  So here's the list of only the UFOs that have