Eleven more to go.

I pulled out some of my thrift shop shirts for Fala’s coat.  This is the first block I’ve made in a while for my Victory Quilt.  I started working on the blocks shortly after the book came out in 2008.  Who knows why I set it aside.  Anyway, Victory Quilt is my October UFO quilt to get to the top stage.    I’m making the 6″ blocks and so far I have 8 blocks done.

Well, technically it’s this quilt — which my husband is now calling “American Seasick”.  Hey, it’s a work in progress.

But as promised here is “Butterfly Hearts” – or my  interpretation of Bonnie Hunter’s Fun with Bricks.  I started this as my leader/ender project in January.  I kept it up as a leader/ender project up until it was time to join the two block halves. Then the top got set aside for a couple of months.  Saturday, I quickly sewed the block halves together and then into rows and finally the quilt top.

Check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others have on their design walls.

Mary asked me about the Red, White and Blue blocks I posted yesterday and wondered if they were part of my October UFO.  Actually they are my April UFO.  What can I say?  I think I did get January’s UFO done in January.  Every thing else has been mixed up.  But the important news is that with the challenge, I’ve been able to finish — as in quilted, bound and label – 17 UFOs so far this year.  Some were already tops as of January 1st, and some still needed pieces cut.  Additionally, I’ve completed 3 top which were started prior to the first of the year which still need to be quilted.

I did not finish a quilt top or quilt in September.  I’m so over it given what I have accomplished so far this year.

So, on to October.

Judy picked #5.

From my still piecing list that would be my Victory Quilt.

Off the get it quilted list it is Glenwood Avenue:

So this of course explains what I’m working on the Red, White & Blue sampler and Fun With Bricks!

I missed last week’s report.  Over the last two weeks I finished up Mom’s 4-Patch Stacked Posies, made a few red, white & blue blocks for my sampler and completed the center of Fun With Bricks! – the leader/ender project I started in January.  I’ll show it tomorrow – hopefully with borders.

Here’s my report for the past two weeks:

Fabric Added Last 2 Weeks: .5 yard
Fabric Added to Date: 108.634 yards

Fabric Used Last 2 Weeks: 9.083yards
Fabric Used to Date: 152.244 yards

Net Used for 2011: 43.61 yards

See how others are doing with their stash by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

The blocks are from a swap, a shop hop, my orphan block box and a couple I made to round out the number.  Now I’ve got to figure out how I want to set the blocks.

UFQ FQs? – These are the Fat Quarters I received as part of the UnFinished Quilts project at my local quilt shop.  In January I provided a list of 6 quilts-in-progress that I wanted to either finish piecing and get to the top stage or tops I wanted to finish.  Yesterday I “turned in” two more – the Christmas Row quilt I finished last month and Mom’s 4-patch Stacked Posies.  I have one more quilt to finish — the Crossword Puzzle.

I’ve been missing in action, but I’m back now.

I just finished this quilt top that my Mom started in September/October 2008.  For several years my mom had me and my knitting and/or quilting buddies out for a weekend retreat.  Food, friends and creating in the country.  What more is needed for a great weekend?  The weekend retreat was around the end of September or early October.  That year, I was planning on showing my friends how to make a 4-patch Stacked Posies quilt.

The weekend after Labor Day there is a big parade in the town where my husband was teaching elementary band.  My husband asked my niece if she wanted to march in the mass 6th grade band (between 675 – 700 kids, so what’s one more?)  She did, so my mom, brother and his family came to town to watch the parade.  Afterwards mom and I went fabric shopping.

Our first stop was Hobby Lobby where we got the fabric for this quilt.  Then we drove over to Heritage Fine Fabrics where mom picked up fabric for a Laurel Birch Christmas wall hanging (now in my stash).  The weekend of the retreat I showed mom and my friends how to make the quilt.  Mom got most of the 4-patches finished.  I just needed to finish a few and put the top together.

This is just one of  the five recent quilt UFOs she had when she died.  The baby quilt is finished and will go to a future great-grandbaby.  When I finish this quilt and the other 2 “new” UFOs I’ll let my brother and sister choose which they want.  That way all three of us will have a quilt that my mom started.  The last UFO is from the 70’s.  A brown, gold and orange quilt as you go log cabin with polyester batting.  Originally for my brother, if/when I get it finished, I think I’ll give it to his son.

Now to decide on an arrangement.

I’m running a day behind, but I still think I’ll be able to finish this top Friday night in time to have a “finish” for September.  All the blocks have been squared up and enough sashing is prepared to get me to the arrangement of the rows.  We’ll see if I get them up on the design wall by this time tomorrow.