I have sporadically participated in The Final Countdown with Prairie Moon Quilts over the years and I’ve decided to do it again this year.
Today’s task is:
This past year I’ve been working hard to knock my UFOs out. I finished all 12 of the UFOs on my 2022 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge list, plus another 5, so there’s not a whole lot left that is a quick finish. After going through my UFO list these are my options:
On the left is the Machine Quilting Sampler from a class in 2008. Free motion quilting on my sewing machine is not a skill I ever became proficient at and at this point it is unlikely that I will. However, my free-motion skills on the long arm could use some practice. I could add some fabric to each end so I can load this on my longarm and finish the quilting there.
On the right is another class project, this one from May 2012. The first thing I need to so is sit still, in good light, and do the embroidery, then I can decide how to finish the piece. Maybe I need to pull my notes and thread and set this by my chair to work on while I’m watching TV in the evenings. Currently I’m re-watching The Librarian — both the moves and the TV show.
A third option is to simply finish these blocks. I think there are 26 or 27 blocks that each need 2 more logs. Once that is done I can start on the quilt top. This quilt is on my 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge. It is what I’m working on until the next Quiltville Mystery Quilt clue comes out on Friday I want to have this quilt completed (quilted, bound, labeled and washed) by mid-January, so I can’t procrastinate on this quilt.
On my 2023 UFO list5 is the Pizza Block quilt. I plan to have finished by mid January as well. I haven’t decided how it will be quilted, but I can make the binding so when it comes off the longarm I can finish it.
Finally there is this quilt – Princess and the Pea.Also on my 2023 UFO list, I threw it on the long arm and the computer quilted it earlier while I was working on the log cabin blocks. Then I realized that I have no idea what I’m going to use for binding.
So, in summary the plan for my ‘quick finishes’ are
- loading the machine quilting sampler on the long arm to practice my free-motion quilting
- gathering the thread and working on the embroidery on my Faux Applique in the evenings
- finish the last of the log cabin blocks so I can begin assembly
- make the pizza box binding so it will be ready to go when when the top is quilted
- decide and make the binding for the Princess and the Pea quilt.
I won’t get them all done before the first, but I should have significant progress on all of them by the 9th.