Jill’s Year of the PIGS Question #4 is:
What is your last finish and what UFO are you working on now?
As Jill said, this is an easy question. My last finish was my 5-patch Scrap baby quilt on January 31st.
I’m working on two different UFOs at the moment. At the sewing machine I’m working on a brightly colored Dresden Plate on a black background.
I started this quilt sometime in 2006. I’m using a skirt my mom made for me in the early ’90s. One of these days I’ll need to see if I can find a picture of it before I started chopping into it. This is what is left of the skirt.
There were at least two more tiers to the skirt. I had to cut into another layer to get enough pieces.
I wore that skirt frequently for 10 years (clearly I’m not a clothes horse.) I always wanted a black blouse and black slouch boots to wear with it. But never got the blouse made or found the boots. Instead I wore it with a purple “camp shirt” and some sort of black shoes. For accessories I had a “silver” concho belt and a multi-colored turquoise phoenix brooch. I finally rolled over the hem of the skirt with my desk chair one time too many and decided I shouldn’t wear it any more.
When I’m not sitting in front of my sewing machine, I’m hand quilting my Double Wedding Ring Quilt.
Last night I discovered that I only have 2 rings left on the row I’m currently working on, then two more rows for a total of 16 rings to go. I’ve blogged a lot about this quilt over the past couple of year. Clicking on “dwr” on the right of my screen take you to those entries.
Check out the link’s at Jill’s to the last finish others have had and what they are currently working on now.
You are getting a lot done. That baby quilt is wonderful! Beautiful use of scraps.
Great projects!
I love the fact that you are turning your much-loved skirt into a quilt to love! And hand-quilting is so much fun. I don’t see that much of it on the blogs, so I loved seeing how you are doing yours.
Way to go on the finish and on chugging along on the quilting! The plates look awesome!