A new way of looking at an old UFO

I had a small but significant finish.

Back in August I made this 22 inch square top

from some Lotta Jansdotter charm squares

for a challenge for Modern8 Create.

I cut circles and inset them, but then stalled on the project.

So I proceeded this week by taking it apart --

actually, only removing one square

And quilted it

To make a cover for my Juki QL98 sewing machine.

Here's a side and back view, where you can see how the missing square

accommodates the thread stand.

I bound and backed it with Kona Espresso,

and quilted it with brown thread.

I'm going to the use the leftover Lotta fabric to make a matching pad

for underneath the machine.

I'm linking up to Amanda's Finish it up Fridays and Don't Tell Quilts' TGIFF

Cozy Ts and unfinished projects

I dug into the spare parts drawer and came up with these rejected T blocks from another project to make another tea cosy. The recipient loved it, but when we fit it on her tea pot, it was too short, since she has one with a handle on top.

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So I gave it another shot, with a tall, four-gored tea cozy in string-pieced reds and browns. Sort of has a vaguely liturgical feel to it, and people have been known to wear it on their heads. But the good news is that it fits my friend's tea pot. And I will put the other one in the gift pile for another occasion.


I've been working on my UFO quilts, but mostly handquilting on the T-quilt on the top left of the photo. This has been a work-in-progress for going on four years. It is a wonky/precision-pieced quilt -- I meant to have the seams match, but they don't everywhere. This quilt cultivated my hatred of sewing half-square triangles together without some sort of speed-piecing method. But I still like the colours, and the wall it is intended for is still bare. And I'm almost half-done quilting it. As you can see, my baskets are no longer a pile of blocks (see the post below) but a completed quilt top. And the borders are on the pink star quilt. So I'm making progress. Especially since I won't be distracted by tea cozies for the foreseeable future.