Hey Everyone, welcome back to UFO Round Up.
I am a bit late at getting my count out for last month but that is because I spent the weekend taking some classes from Carol Taylor. What a fantastic weekend we had playing with fabric, yarns and threads. More to come on this in another post.
Well, April wasn’t as productive for finishing UFO’s as March was because I actually made a few new pieces and finished them for the Creativfestival show which took place the last weekend in April and was a huge success for us. Thanks to all who dropped by the booth and sat in on one of my presentations.
What did I complete?
Oh boy, I just went and looked at my spreadsheet to see what I did complete last month and I came up rather short. I only completed one, yes count it, one UFO from the list. It is called Painted Sunset.
Painted Sunset
The full image of this piece is at the top of the page.
This was a piece I started many years ago in Yellowknife on Easter weekend when we had an instructor come up from Edmonton to teach a class on painting on fabric. I’m afraid I cannot remember her name. I painted the little sunset scene in the class and then took it to Quilt Canada with me where I added the curved border pieces that continue on the scene in fabric.
Close up of painted insert
Finally just this past Easter I sandwiched the quilt and added some very simple quilting lines to enhance the continuation of the sunset into the border. I was very lucky to find just a large enough piece of fabric for the binding that matched the piece surrounding the insert of the sunset.
Be Mine
The other piece that I did from to start to finish was a quilt I designed for Northcott from their Stonehenge Sweethearts 2 fabric collection. It is called Be Mine and is available for purchase in my store.
Be Mine wall hanging
Jungle Maze
Another piece was started from scratch called Jungle Maze but I still need to hand stitch down the binding on it. This is another quilt I designed for Northcott with their Safari fabric collection. This pattern is also available for purchase in my store. Watch for a future post when I return from vacation about this quilt.
Jungle Maze baby/child’s quilt
Even though I didn’t get many completed from the UFO list, the month was a huge success in many other ways. More about these pieces when I return from vacation.
How did you do with your list?
Happy Quilting!
Instead of UFOs you made two new quilts, how wonderful. I have complete 2 very small UFOs this month. Mind you SMALL. One was a bedrunner for Christmas and small table topper/runner also for Christmas. Both have hand embroidered items on them. Love your painting on fabric. Was it hard to do? I have some fabric paint i would like to dabble in a project.
great work Kathleen. The painting isn’t hard just need paints and an open mind to play and have fun.
I love your Sunset quilt, more than makes up for only one finish – you quilty professionals are so hard on yourselves!
Thanks Juliet.
Any new patterns yet Jen? You sound very busy but would still like to have some more of your flowers like the dahlia etc.
Marilynne
Marilynne, there will be a new flower in the summer of issue of A Needle Pulling Thread magazine which is a Canadian magazine made here in Ontario. Make sure to check it out as I am pretty sure you will like it.
I am continuing to sew friendship blocks for a twin size quilt I started about 3 years ago. I got about 40 done…so am up to 63. I may go for 80 although I am no longer “feeling the love” for this project lol. I also started and finished a cute fabric carrot shaped table runner for Easter. Lots of gardening this month. Let’s keep our chins up. Every finish is a good one!
Great work Jane. Sometimes one gets tired of sewing the same blocks over and over but it will be worth it when done.