Update on UFOs at American Patchwork and Quilting Group

Doing well so far with two months down and 4 of my UFOs finished.  I am trying to do two at a time since my list is so darn long.

Every year I join the UFO 2020 Challenge from the American Patchwork and Quilting group.  Every year they ask for a list of 12 UFOs and then they randomly draw a number for you to start that quilt.  It's easy and I can still analyse each one but lets the APQ do the choosing.  So here's my list and what month is for March:

PROJECT	STATUS BEFORE	STATUS AFTER
1  Conversation Quilt	All material gathered, and two cut, but none sewn.  Suppose to look like this:
2.  Sew Incredible Seasons BOM 2019 JANUARY
3  Flamingo Barn Door for our Dining room using the SewKindofWonderful ruler.	Have all the fabric, and some of it cut.  Need to start sewing.
4  Zen Chic Sky. February	Have the pattern, have the geese all made, need to quilt it.  Started in 2019 in September.
5  Quilt Doodle BOM 2019	Have 8 out of twelve blocks completed.
6  Black & White Paper Piece, 2018	No before picture, I'm just doing the quilt.  Have 4 blocks completed.
7  HST BOM by Freshly Pieced.   MARCH	Have all material and now all the pattern.  But haven't started.  It's suppose to look like this
8 Dwight the Deer Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman	All the material and the pattern.  2016 - from Craftsy Online Course.
9  Hand applique 2 sisters of Buggy Barn quilts patterns. February  - Get one block done.	Joined as a BOM, have all the material and it's all by hand so great for travel.  Haven't even started it.	In February I did the tree, the cat and the flowers, as well as the knot in the tree.  That's section 1 and section 2 I was working on.
10  Modern quilt	Have all the material.  Need to cut.
11  Row by Rows to complete a queen size quilt.	Have 18 rows completed.  Need to do 16 more.
12  There's so many more, this one I'm not going to list.  Just choose one.  Did this one for MARCH	Pink Lemonade - had it partly done, some of the pieces are cut wrong.  Two rows completed.  Had to find the pattern.  Did this for MARCH

LISTING UFO PROJECTS B - 2nd list

PROJECT  B version	STATUS BEFORE	STATUS AFTER
1  Churn Dash	About 10 done, have all the material.  Quilt guild started it and I just need to finish it.
2.  Tea Cubs JANUARY	Had one done.  All material there and all patterns there.
3  Applique Flower with wool	All material but that's it.  I have to hand stitch most of it.
4 Sewing dummy make of flowers	Some flowers cut out and ready for pattern.  Its a decent size.
5  Red Modern quilt by Quilt doodle.	Need to catch up.  Missing January, February
6  Paint brush quilt	Have pattern and material.  Was going to make a quilt but now it's a table runner.
7  House quilt BOM    OUCH!!!  March	One block completed out of 12.	Got Pat Sloan and the groups quilt done instead.  Had 46 blocks done, did 3 more and put them all together.  Had to piece them.
8 Missourri quilt strip quilt	Just need to choose any one.
9  Sewing dummy made of a truck	Have some flowers cut out.
10  Strip quilt with scraps	Need 48 of them.  Have 12 completed.
11  Squirrel made by SewFresh	have material and pattern.  This is what the pattern looks like.
12  Horse or cow.  Horse is made of sqaures.	Have material and pattern for both

I'm also hoping to make one baby quilt a month for the hospital.

January   

February

And my February OMG is completed!

I'm so pleased to say that I have finished my goal!  My goal was the pattern you see on the side from   Brigette Heitlan - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/ who has gorgeous modern quilts.  This one is also in her book.  It's called Sky.  A wonderful pattern using 5" squares, and making flying geese.  She uses a trick that I explain in my original post and my challenge statement here.  

My quilt did end up differently and it is on my wall exactly where I said it would be on the wall upstairs in my loft.  It's long, more rectangular then the square pattern.  I used the method of how to make the geese.  Did tons of them, then started to put them in rows, with some blanks in between.  But after that it was a free for all........  I placed them here and there with blank spaces in between and this is what it ended up liking (look below).  This is where I started at. 

 Some of the quilting was done, but definitely not all.  I do my own quilting and I enjoy it so it took me at least 8 hours.

Here is what it looks like when done and on that wall:

 The empty spaces that I quilted my own geese.  I quilted wavy lines all through it to make it look like the geese were flying.  Did it work that way?  What do you think?  But I love the blank geese the most.  Glad I did that...

 The final shot.....

The material is from Koffman of course, that wild animal/flower print.  Love how it pops with the green.  The green was some material I purchased two or three years ago during Christmas.  You can't make out the trees in the fabric, with the quilting it all goes together and makes it look like a forest.  Very, very different.

Hooking up to One Monthly goal@ Elm Street Quilts

By the way, I did do more than that as promised in OMG.  Here's the list:

• I completed the tree and am working the owl.  See picture below.
• I did do 4 more scrap string quilt blocks as I promised myself.

• Block January and February for Quilt Doodle's Red Quilt called Gandma's Attic Quilt  which I will be making out of all these different reds.  It's a BOM which just started and has free blocks every month.  You've only missed the first one so you'll have to pay for that one, but the rest, mark it in your calendar and start this wonderful BOM.  This will be my 5th one with Cindy, she's a wonderful designer.  Still working on this one but definitely doing this one.  Always wanted to do a two color quilt.
• I made a baby quilt from material that a friend of mine gave me.  It's for premie babies at the hospital.  I promised to make at least 8 this year.  But this is just my first one so I need to speed up.  See the picture below.  I'm very pleased that I used the strips that was suppose to be a table top cover, but in the end I was able to make it into a baby quilt with some material that my friend gave me.  All together, a quilt that will make someone happy.

• I started the baby painting quilt created by Sew Fresh - a wonderful designer in Canada.  She designed paint brushes with paint drawn down.  I'm using solid colors with a background that looks like a wall that needs painting.  The pattern comes in two sizes, and I started to make the baby quilt but I turned it into a table top cover for an art teacher.  It's not completed, but it's three strips, and now I have the other three to make a second table top.  Great gift for someone else I know who paints. I may put it on my list for March.  

That's it.  That's enough for a week..  I am cutting back on my material and cutting down on some of my scraps.

Now I need to relax, like my cat.

Happy times, now onto the next OMG because there always seems to be a next.

modern Exchange is in!!!!

I had the pleasure of a great partner for the Modern Quilt Guild Online exchange.  Her name is Isabella from Florida.  And boy is she ever talented!!!!!

The rules are simple (although I didn't follow them to the letter - sorry....).  You design something for your partner from 12 x 12" to 24" square.  My partner did 24" and it's perfect for my table which is exactly where it went right away!!!!

Even my husband loves it and demanded that it went right away on my table, stating that the other table cloth that I made was ugly.  And that's where it's been since Saturday when I picked it up from the mail  You have got to see this closer...

She quilted in solid lines.  The background is what is so fantastic, little words, but the entire thing looks like morris code.  And I looked it up to make sure  what it meant and I got it!!!

QUILTER

Wonderful job Isabella!!!

Love it so much!  Thank you.  I hope in return you like your design which is totally BC style.  One is modern, and the view from Steveston, a place I love to walk, and the other is something I saw, on one of my walks, but not my pattern.  It's from SewFresh, a wonderful designer from Ontario, and a lady I very much admire.  

If you've never done this before, I highly recommend it, you'll meet such wonderful people.

Take care...

Nicole

Sick and not sewing....

OK, things are a little crazy.  First my machine breaks down and then it takes two weeks to get it back because of snow.  Then I not only get it back but I get a spare machine from Joannes in the states, for emergency.  Now I have both machines and I get so sick I'm feverish in bed for close to a week, and all weekend I might add.  So do I get a lot done?  No, but I do get enough done to be able to meet the deadline for the Modern Quilt Swap. 

My partner in this is Isabelle from Florida.  I'm waiting for her quilt (from 12" to 24" square) and I think she'll be surprised with mine.  I hope she likes it!! Did a little extra.  Although the first one one modern it was not square, it was 12" wide and 36" long.  I can't wait to see if she's happy with it or not.  But because it was not following the rules I did send a 12 1/2 by 12 1/2" square.  It's not modern but so cute and sooooo  Vancouver.  I don't know if she's looking at this blog or not, so I'm being quiet about all of this...  So I've completed two more for my listing for this years list.

Hope to see them all at one point.

February's OMG - Can't wait for this one

I started this one before Christmas and it's one that's on my AQM lists as well.  So this is the goal!!!  The pattern is from   Brigette Heitlan - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/ who has gorgeous modern quilts.  This one is also in her book.  It's called Sky.  A wonderful pattern using 5" squares, and making flying geese.  Her trick is wonderful, cut the 5" squares in half.  then cut the rectangles down to 4 1/2".  Then cut 5" squares for the sides, and that makes sure that you have that 1/4 inch on top to make sure your points are there.  I can't give you pictures because it's her pattern, but once you do this one, you're solid for flying geese.

My quilt is different (of course).  I wanted it for part of my wall upstairs in my loft.  It's long, more rectangular then the square pattern.  So I used the method of how to make the geese.  Did tons of them, then started to putting them rows, with some blanks in between.  But after that it was a free for all........  I placed then here and there with blank spaces in between and this is what it ended up like (look below).  This is where I'm starting at.  Almost done, and been hanging on the back of my chair in my sewing room.  Time to put it where I made it for. 

 Done some of the quilting for the quilt.  Looking at just a squiggly line.  And for some pizzazz, I'm leaving some areas open in the shape of a triangle.  I was working on this quilt when my sewing machine first started acting up.  So I stopped quilting and then just went to sewing, and then it broke for good!!

 There are a lot of empty (white) space here and there for those blank triangles to magically appear.

The material is from Kaffman of course, that wild animal/flower print.  Love how it pops with the green.  The green was some material I purchased two or three years ago during Christmas.  You can't make out the trees in the fabric, with the quilting it all goes together and makes it look like a forest.  Very, very different.

Can't wait to finish this one.  This is my listing for OMG - One monthly goal.

But not just that one, but a second one since I think this one won't take so much time.

Out side of OMG, I'm looking at completing the following:

• Block January and February for Quilt Doodle's Red Quilt called Gandma's Attic Quilt  which I will be making out of all these different reds.  It's a BOM which just started and has free blocks every month.  You've only missed the first one so you'll have to pay for that one, but the rest, mark it in your calendar and start this wonderful BOM.  This will be my 5th one with Cindy, she's a wonderful designer.  
• Making 4 scrap string quilts to get my scrap boxes (yes I have two or three) down.  Really need to get my room cleaned of all these scraps.
• for AQS the quilt goal mentioned above is from my 12B quilt listing
• for the second AQS 12A quilt listed it's a big one!!! See the picture above.   It's a hand quilted quilt from Crazy for Applique designed by The Buggy Barn (now One S1STER)  it's out of print now which makes it even more valuable.  The quilt was turned into a BOM from Carriage Country Quilts and although I didn't join the class, they had this kit, with all the fabric, but no book.  At the time Buggy Barn was breaking up and the quilt store was worried that they couldn't get any more books so they sold the entire quilt kit for $136.  What a steal.  The pattern Garden Party is 84" by 91" and the kit includes all the fabric.  I don't plan to finish it all this month (an impossible goal).  Instead I'm looking at doing the first two parts of the kit, the tree and the owl as part of it.  I'm planning on doing this as a BOM with one or two sections per month.
• The baby painting quilt created by Sew Fresh - a wonderful designer in Canada.  She designed paint brushes with paint drawn down.  I'm using solid colors with a background that looks like a wall that needs painting.  The pattern comes in two sizes, but I'm making it a small baby quilt to donate to the hospital for premie babies.

That's it.  That's enough.  That would get finished two of my UFOs, start a quilt that I've had all the material for 4 years, and cut down some of my scraps.  

Happy times