I've been following along with Pat Sloan, Doing the Crazy Quilty March Challenges this month. It's been great, and I've organized so much stuff, that it's unbeliveable I can fit so much into my smaller space. Last night I totally forgot my challenge so today I tackled Two.
Today was to tidy up. To find a container, drawer, box, bag or what ever and sort through it and put things where like things are to be...
I had this corner of the RV where I have been stacking some containers of quilty / sewing stuff to go through later and organize, three in all, so this was a great opportunity for me to Tidy it all up.
First thing I noticed is one container was almost all UFO"s. I have been looking forward to gathering up all of them into one place for awhile now and had a few in a small pile that I had ran across earlier this month. It's so much fun running across old UFO"s. For me it brings back all the excitement I had in the very beginning of wanting to put them together.
Oh Look!!! I totally forgot about this one... I just love this fabric. This is called "Forget Me Not" - a Mystery BOM by Esther Aliu from back in 2012. It's an applique quilt... I hope I have the rest of this pattern so I can complete it. I know I prob. saved it on one of my laptops back then, but since then i have lost a lot of my drives I had saved things on.
I have all my UFO's found to date, sorted, and most of them in bags and put into a container where I can find them quickly later when I'm ready to work on them again. I also took a note pad, and as i found ea. one, I wrote down the name of the project, what was in the bag, what it might be missing, aprox. how far I was along in the project, and if the pattern was included. I have named this container UFO No. 1 and I can already see that I'll need a No. 2. Anyone who has ever followed along with Bonnie Hunter's yearly QAL Mystery's will prob. recognize "Orca Bay" on the top of the pile. It's almost ready to quilt, so shouldn't be long now and that one will be finished.
Earlier this week we had a challenge to look for one of our "lost loves"... (a lost ufo) and I found one I had been wanting to finish for over 30 years. It is dated in the late 1980's and was one of the very first projects I started when I first wanted to learn to quilt. Being I tend to try to organize everything in my life, I told myself, 'You want to learn to quilt, then you need a carry tote so you can go to classes'... so that is where I started.
This is both front and back pcs. There is no pattern, but I do have an photo of what it is suppose to look like when finished.
I didn't know HOW to quilt at the time, so that is where I stopped. This month's goal is to purchase the rest of the fabric, and start drafting out my plan on how i want all this to go together. This is going to really be fun as I love to design patterns.
Ok, this is getting long, so I just have one more quick photo to share of yesterday's challenge for Crazy Quilty March and it's prompt was color.
We were to pull all our quilting fabric out (or go through our shelves) and see how much we had of ea. color set... did we need more of something , maybe more solids, more colors, etc. etc. So basically taking inventory of our stock. Well, mine are still in storage (or at least it seems that some are missing).. I didn't have a lot when I moved anyway, but I'm sure i had more then this. My stash is horrible. Odd prints, mismatched colors and a whole lot of lacking colors in any type of color range. No wonder it get's frustrating trying to finish a project when I don't have or can't find a color to pull and use.
Today was to tidy up. To find a container, drawer, box, bag or what ever and sort through it and put things where like things are to be...I had this corner of the RV where I have been stacking some containers of quilty / sewing stuff to go through later and organize, three in all, so this was a great opportunity for me to Tidy it all up.
First thing I noticed is one container was almost all UFO"s. I have been looking forward to gathering up all of them into one place for awhile now and had a few in a small pile that I had ran across earlier this month. It's so much fun running across old UFO"s. For me it brings back all the excitement I had in the very beginning of wanting to put them together.
Oh Look!!! I totally forgot about this one... I just love this fabric. This is called "Forget Me Not" - a Mystery BOM by Esther Aliu from back in 2012. It's an applique quilt... I hope I have the rest of this pattern so I can complete it. I know I prob. saved it on one of my laptops back then, but since then i have lost a lot of my drives I had saved things on.
I have all my UFO's found to date, sorted, and most of them in bags and put into a container where I can find them quickly later when I'm ready to work on them again. I also took a note pad, and as i found ea. one, I wrote down the name of the project, what was in the bag, what it might be missing, aprox. how far I was along in the project, and if the pattern was included. I have named this container UFO No. 1 and I can already see that I'll need a No. 2. Anyone who has ever followed along with Bonnie Hunter's yearly QAL Mystery's will prob. recognize "Orca Bay" on the top of the pile. It's almost ready to quilt, so shouldn't be long now and that one will be finished.
Earlier this week we had a challenge to look for one of our "lost loves"... (a lost ufo) and I found one I had been wanting to finish for over 30 years. It is dated in the late 1980's and was one of the very first projects I started when I first wanted to learn to quilt. Being I tend to try to organize everything in my life, I told myself, 'You want to learn to quilt, then you need a carry tote so you can go to classes'... so that is where I started.
This is both front and back pcs. There is no pattern, but I do have an photo of what it is suppose to look like when finished. I didn't know HOW to quilt at the time, so that is where I stopped. This month's goal is to purchase the rest of the fabric, and start drafting out my plan on how i want all this to go together. This is going to really be fun as I love to design patterns.
Ok, this is getting long, so I just have one more quick photo to share of yesterday's challenge for Crazy Quilty March and it's prompt was color.
We were to pull all our quilting fabric out (or go through our shelves) and see how much we had of ea. color set... did we need more of something , maybe more solids, more colors, etc. etc. So basically taking inventory of our stock. Well, mine are still in storage (or at least it seems that some are missing).. I didn't have a lot when I moved anyway, but I'm sure i had more then this. My stash is horrible. Odd prints, mismatched colors and a whole lot of lacking colors in any type of color range. No wonder it get's frustrating trying to finish a project when I don't have or can't find a color to pull and use.
A good excuse to do a little shopping - even if it has to be online for now.
Take care, stay safe, and stay home and quilt!!! ~ Rhonda
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