October UFO challeng

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Permalink Reply by Ruthann on October 1, 2009 at 11:41am

okay will be second to try to make promise to myself to finish my UFO, quilt for hubby for X-mass made sanwich style as Sunshine advised me (thanks again Sunshine). also may start a patch quilt, as have 4 ich squares all cut, just need to sew together, is rust, brown, tan and another fabric looks like log cabin cheater fabric. or may find something else to start. have some ideas but must motivate myself to get doing it..

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Permalink Reply by Cheri on October 1, 2009 at 1:22pm

Christmas tree skirt for my sister.

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Permalink Reply by Cheri on October 13, 2009 at 9:12am

Ordered backing/batting this morning. It's a Quilt as you go, so I haven't got alot done yet.

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Permalink Reply by Cheri on October 27, 2009 at 10:26am

Top and batting are assembled - waiting for delivery of backing

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Permalink Reply by Cornwoman/AZ on October 1, 2009 at 2:51pm

My October UFO challenge will be to complete the project that I began working on for the September challenge....re-purposing the quilter's tote UFO into a wallhanging. I played froggy (rippit...rippit!) with the blocks sewn into sets of 4 last month, and decided on my plan of action as well as what I wanted the finished product to look like. So now it's a matter of execution for the month of October.

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Permalink Reply by Cornwoman/AZ on October 13, 2009 at 1:57pm

This month is turning out to be a very busy month too! We've got a ton of family commitments that have/will have covered a lot of the days of this month. Right now I'm hand quilting my mini landscape to try to have it completed before the guild meeting tomorrow morning, where they wanted all of us to bring them for Show 'n Tell. We have grandchild/grandchildren staying with us until at least Saturday night and maybe sometime on Sunday, but I'm going to try to cut the backing squares and strips for my challenge project in quiet moments. If I cut a few backing squares, then a few strips, I can at least start quilting the blocks and attaching strips strategically....

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Permalink Reply by Cornwoman/AZ on October 26, 2009 at 9:47am

Yea! Yesterday afternoon I was finally able to do some fabric cutting and am hoping to have the rest of the strips cut so that I can work on quilting the blocks and connecting them into rows. Then I can go back and cut some more strips to join the rows, make borders, etc. I'm not likely to finish in October, but at least I'm making some progress...finally! lol

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Permalink Reply by Cornwoman/AZ on October 30, 2009 at 9:30am

Well, Saturday is the end of October and there is no way that I will be able to finish my challenge project for this month. The time just flew by!! I have definitely made lots of progress, however, and will strive to work on it some more when I can over today. But tomorrow I'm attending a 4 1/2 hour class at my LQS...plus tonight our DD and 2 DGDs will be arriving to spend the weekend with us again, so I am not sure that I'll even have time to work on it today after I get the cleaning done and have gathered the materials for my class. So I will be committing to finish working on it for next month's challenge.

My challenge project blocks...24 of them in all...have 12 of them quilted now, so I am half-way through that phase of the project. Connecting them and then making borders to connect, before binding them is all that is left to the project once the other 12 are quilted.

How are the rest of you doing on your projects??

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Permalink Reply by QuiltDragon on October 1, 2009 at 4:57pm

Better finish the baby quilt for Lily as her Christening is Nov 1!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Kate in OK on October 1, 2009 at 6:38pm

I want to finsh DH's quilt. Not sure I can still get it quilted before Christmas, but I'd just like to get it finished. I've only got one last border to finish and the backing, I made a lot of progress in Septebmer. So one more weekend and I should be able to finish it up.

My two oldest UFO's are both small and need to be quilted. I promised myself that I'd learn how to quilt on my sewing machine so I could finish these small projects. I've bought the thread to do the quilting, but am still intimidated about trying to do my own quilting. Maybe this is a good time to see if I can figure out this part and get these two projects completed.

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Permalink Reply by Mari/WA on October 2, 2009 at 5:27am

True Confessions!!! I failed September's Challenge!!!! I had a project picked (a grocery tote) out. It has been cut out and on my sewing table for probably a year now. That was my September Challenge. Toward the end of the month I got my table cleaned off and was preparing to sew it up to meet my commitment and I discovered when i spead it all out that the pattern had become separated from the cut out project!!!! YIKES!!!! Well, needless to say that was all the discouragement I needed to loose total interest and accept failure. I just had too much to do the month of September and that was just too much. So, to my surprise, Dear Judy supplied me with a NEW pattern. Yep, Judy, Darlene and I were going to make them together and I dropped out so Judy's pattern showed up on my desk yesterday and that is my October Challenge now!!!! Wahoo!!!! Shopping bag here I come!!!

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Permalink Reply by Cornwoman/AZ on October 2, 2009 at 9:12am

We've all been there sometime. It's good to know that you are human like the rest of us. lol

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