Monday, January 13, 2014

Trying to juggle...


So many of us are trying to start the year out by finishing some UFO's.  This is my goal too.  I made a list of 15 that I will work on from now til July.  My first one is from a swap, Delectable Mountains, a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  We made blocks out of 30's.  Easy enough.  I got stumped because I didn't know how to quilt it.  Well, yesterday I got it sandwiched.  I have decided (thanks to my daughter Stephanie) to stitch in the ditch straight lines following the seams.  Tonight I was too pooped from work but hope to make some headway this week in the evenings after work.


My in-between-quilting-project will be my Celtic Solstice blocks. I'm only on clue #2, the chevrons.  I am sitting tonight and marking the diagonal squares.  Mondays seem to hit me hard nowadays.  lol



This is such a big undertaking but I am encouraged by all the Bonnie Hunter quilts I have seen over the years.  Even if it takes people a while to get it done, they do finish.  I can too!



So here's where the quilt is.....waiting for me, but not tonight.  Sooo sleepy...
:o)  I can't even blame it on the weather.  It's in the 80's!  lol


3 comments:

Terry said...

Your Delectable Mountains quilt is beautiful! I'm so glad you're going to get it finished! Good luck with your Celtic solstice! :0)

The Other Barb said...

I love the bright colors of your Celtic Solstice. Best of luck on it. I'm bogged down on the last clue. Just haven't felt like doing a ton of the blocks in one sitting. But..as you said, I will finish it~ And I didn't do any sewing today. I will blame mine laziness on the weather...it was raining~

Amanda @BusyLittleQuilter said...

I just finished my Celtic Solstice Chevrons. I kept making the last 20 using the method Bonnie suggested, but I kept throwing them away. Maybe I was getting tired of them. I finally decided to paper piece them, and now I have them all made. Now that's behind me!!