Hello friends! Digging through the box of UFO's has produce some sweet treats for us today.
Heart Pops is the sweetest of them all! It was an impulse pattern purchase in
January 2023. It's fun and cute but I don't think I'll be making more. Just to be on the safe side it will be stored with the pattern and background fabric.
Next up is the Vortex quilt I started 2 or 3 years ago. The plan for this one was to be my Sunday project. A stress relieving, scrap busting beauty. She's as sweet as honey to look at but my patience for the tiny strips of fabric and the constant trimming of the blocks didn't suit my fancy for very long.
She's not on the top of my list for finishing but I'll keep her around and work on her again...someday.
The next UFO is scraps from a super scrappy quilt. I started cutting the strips for it around 2010, give or take. Without a quilt plan or doing any quilt math I cut one 2.5 strip from every fabric I had in my small stash at the time. Yep, it was overkill even for the small stash. Most of these fabrics were purchased at Walmart and Joann's. The yellow gingham is a polycotton from mom's stash. And there is one designer fabric. It was my first designer fabric bought in a local shop. I can't remember the designer's name. But I do remember she quit designing a year or two after I purchased the fabric.
Three quilts later and I still have scraps. If you would like to see the 3 quilts and their storis
click here. This one needs to be finished so the story can have a happy ending. It's going to the very top of the must finish list.
The last UFO for today is the yummy blue Nifty Nine patches,
started in 2014. I had big plans for these, but it never happened. They ended up in 2 other quilts. You can see them
here and
here.
I thought all of the nine patches were used in the second quilt. But here we are with 45 nine patches and enough fabric to make several more.
I could still make the original quilt plan if I had more of this fabric line. A quick dig in the stash and... I have more!
I dug a little deeper and found 1 1/2 yards of this gorgeous large floral from the same line of fabric called Paisley Denim by Clothworks. Great for a quilt border on a smaller quilt.
The fabric pull was added to the UFO with plans of making the quilt...someday.
After the UFO's are shared with you here on the blog, they are being sorted on my quilt frame as shown below.
I have been searching for a more efficient and accessible storage system for the UFOs. My theory is if they are easy to see and access, I will be more likely to work on them regularly, rather than pulling them out every year or two to see what is in the box.
Over the next week or two there will be at least 2 more What's In The Box blog post. Hopefully by then I'll have a new UFO storage system, and the tote can become storage for finished quilts.
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