midnight flight finish

Midnight flight is finished. I began piecing the pieces in 2017.   As part of my 5 quilt project, I started making the blocks from the pieced units in September 2024. It was my one monthly goal for December to finish it. This was huge project. But it is beautiful in person. It was huge now but the cutting  and piecing the first units in 2016 and 2017, it was big as well. Sometimes, I forget to be grateful for the past me for getting the tedious parts done. It is also my 41st finish for 2024 and the last finish for the year. I will be excited to start on 2025 ufos that I want to finish. I plan to stick to my 5 quilt project again in 2025. It seems to be working for me.

84 x 84

I had a hard time choosing the backing and just settled

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baby 30s finish

I worked on this quilt as part of the rainbow scrap challenge this year. It was a fun and easy addition to the year. Baby 30s was also a part of my 5 quilt ufo project. I was able to make the blocks and sashings and finish it in one year. I know I could have finished it much quicker, but, carrying it out the whole year made it very relaxing. Before, it went into the ufo closet in 2021, it was all cut out and ready to start. That is one of the blessings of working on older ufos. I usually don't call them an ufo unless they are at least that far along in the process. This quilt played hide and seek with me last year, but I found it.

54 x 54 = 8 yards

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stash report October 20, 2024

I added a jelly roll to my stash for next year's new project. I loved the tiny prints in these neutrals.

 stash report October 20, 2024 

fabric added this week: 3 yards

 fabric added year to date for 2024: 78 yards    

fabric used:  -  22 yards - box kite finish

fabric used year to date for 2024: 587 yards 

590 yards used more than bought in 2024

I sewed 4 days last week. It's an improvement

I needed to move my rug on the frame and took the opportunity to take a picture of a bigger perspective.

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Box kite finish

Box kite is finished. This is an older ufo from 2017 and is a Bonnie Hunter's pattern from her book addicted to scraps.  In 2023, I started cutting the borders for this quilt as part of the rainbow scrap challenge. I could cut so many in each color as it was called as the color of the month. In march of this year, I started assembly of the blocks as part of my 5 quilt project. And, I quilted and bound it in October. I sure love all the scrappiness. It is fun to see the secondary and more patterns after finishing.

74 x 82 = 22 yards

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stash report October 13, 2024

It has been six months since I purchased from Missouri star. But, I started a bundle and gave into temptation. I don't need anything but loved the eye candy. I already have a lovely collection of batiks and hardly ever use them. Especially this year, since, I haven't started any new projects. But, I am itching to start something.

 stash report October 13, 2024 

fabric added this week: 3 yards

 fabric added year to date for 2024: 75 yards    

fabric used:  -  15 yards - diamond string finished

64 x 64 = 15 yards

  fabric used year to date for 2024: 565 yards 

571 yards used more than bought in 2024

I sewed 1 days last week. I did put a quilt on the frame but it took 4 days. LOL

I really do not have any hand stitching this time. Hopefully next week.

I am so grateful my son and daughter in law were fine after the hurricane in Florida. They were in the cone at Fort myers.

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diamond strings finish

I finished diamond strings from my older ufos. This one started in 2017. At least that is when I made the string blocks. It was put away until July of this year when I dug it out for my 5 quilt project. It only needed the border.

64 x64 = 15 yards

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cheddar jubillee finish

cheddar jubilee is finished and is my one monthly goal for September.

This is an older ufo from 2017. I made many of the sampler blocks in that year. After I assembled the top, I lost it until I found it misplaced in 2024. I was finally able to add it to the 5 quilt project, and work on it until it is finished. This combines my favorite color - yellow, my favorite kind of scrappy, my favorite recycled shirts, and my favorite string piecing. And I was a big fan of Bonnie Hunter. Thinking I had lost this forever has made this a very satisfying finish.

71 x 80 = 17 yards

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garlic knots finish

I blogged about garlic knots when I re- started it as part of my 5 quilt ufo project. I had made all the blocks in 2017 from the free pattern in quiltmaker magazine. Bonnie Hunter went on the create a stand alone pattern. Garlic knots  was a puzzle to make with the sashings extending into 2 rows. I am thrilled with how it finished.  I love all the scrappy combinations of the garlic knots and remember many of the fabrics I used. I made it with my scrap bags of 2 inch strips. and the border from 1 1/2 inch strips.

74 x 86 = 24 yards

2888 pieces

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dark strings finish

Since this quilt was made before I was blogging, I don't have many notes or pictures of the beginning. I know I started it in 2014 and the pattern was in a book called string quilt revival. I added it to the 5 quilt project in July 2024. It was in a project box, but it was ready to be quilted - happy surprise.

I really like string quilts and I know it was pieced on my people powered treadle machine while I was watching tv. I bet the early treadlers couldn't say that. I have a wonderful treadle that sews almost as fast as a powered machine. I haven't used it this year or pieced strings and I am missing it. 

I liked the pattern because the picture used black and civil war fabrics. I didn't, and, I really like the bright contrast with black. And it is so nice to make use of the small bits.

66 x80 = 15 yards

finally a use for the animal print😃

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umbrien fields finish

This is a wall hanging pattern from a different box of crayons that is finished. Our guild had her as a speaker and she offered a workshop in 2017 of a beautiful quilt that I also bought, which is still not finished. But, I did finally finish the wall hanging as part of my 5 quilt project. She introduced us to the idea that we could use other fabrics combined with cotton. This wall hanging has silk, velvet, satin, wool and other shiny stuff.

25 x 25 = 4 yards

I bound it in velvet. Not a good idea - it looks good but my sewing machine thought I was crazy.

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cathedral stars finish

My cathedral stars quilt is finished. This was my one monthly goal for August.

I made most of the blocks in 2016 . It popped up on the 5 quilt project in May 2024  and it was a top in June 2024. I found this as a free pattern at quiltville. When I opened the box after all these years, I didn't like the colors I had used to make the blocks. But, It made a striking quilt.

85 x 85 = 25 yards

I am never sure about the thread color on a dark scrappy quilt. I used a light gray that I thought would blend with the white and not be so stark on the border. I like how it turned out. The border is not boring and the piecing stands out instead of the quilting in the center. I did my usual free form loops and circles and used a turquoise backing.

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churn dash finish

Churn dash quilt is actually a combination of 2 older ufos-  6 inch churn dash blocks and 3 1/2 inch churndash blocks. I had started making scrappy churndash blocks as leader/ enders and began to make them in earnest in 2017. I made a big batch of 6 inch scrappy blocks with a quilt in mind and then discovered the adorable 3 1/2 inch blocks much later. They were so cute and I made them just for fun. Both sets of blocks were eventually added to the ufo closet. When churn dash appeared on the list as Part of 5 quilt project, I decided to figure out a quilt for both in one quilt.  The top was done in april of 2024. I have been a fan of churn dash blocks as a great old classic block.

The Churn Dash is a very old 9-Patch quilt block pattern, originating between 1800 and 1849. Its name is a result of the resemblance of the triangle and rectangle perimeter of the block to a butter churn and the center square to the stick (or “dash”) of the butter churn.

With only a few elements--triangles, rectangles, and squares-- the Churn Dash was  frequently one of the first patterns learned by young girls. In spite of its simplicity, it also provides a challenge for advanced quilters because it lends itself well to very intricate designs.

I have 2 or 3 other churn dash quilts still in ufo status. One made from shirts, one made from florals, and one just scrappy.

76 x 76 = 14 yards

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neutral territory finish

Neutral territory is an older ufo from 2013. My local quilt shop carried this line of fabric and had a free pattern. I really liked the shop sample and bought what I would need to make it. The colors are rich and satisfying. The pattern was easy. I chose it for the 5 quilts project last month and had a chance to finish it this month. It doesn't look like any of my latest quilts, so it was a fun change.

48 x 60 = 8 yards

I used flannel for the backing and sewing machine to bind it.

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baskets finish

This basket quilt has been waiting for the quilting since 2022. It was a buck a block monthly block of the month from a store in Indy in 2014 which was actually 3.00 a block. I liked this one so much I even bought the finishing kit. I hope to give this one to a friend, unless I decide it is too small. I love basket quilts. It is a block that has been around at least since the mid 1800s. They look so happy.

40 x 50 = 6 yards

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scrappy sandwiches is finished

I was able to quilt an older UFO in July and I just finished the binding. I made the shirt blocks in 2020 with an overly large bag of shirt crumbs and strings. I do love strings and crumbs and recycled shirt fabrics. I haven't made anything this year with strings and crumbs in an attempt to finish ufos- I sure do miss it. I finished the  blocks in 2021 and I added borders that year . I believe it is a free pattern on quiltville called string x

61 x 74 = 14 yards

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every which way finish goal

I chose finishing this ufo as my one monthly goal for July. I am guessing I started it in 2016. It was a 5 quilt project in 2022 to get it finished with a border. It has waited to be quilted until this month. It is a pattern called every which way. I had a fat quarter bundle of happy fabrics and found the pattern in a quilt shop in Utah. I would happily make it again. But, I think that a lot about my older projects. It is like seeing it again for the first time after so much time has passed.

58 x 64 = 12 yards

I think I still have a quilt to be quilted that I started in 2013 that is the oldest. But I have gone from 34 quilts in the closet to 7. I am really grateful for the time to finish them.

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