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Saturday, February 2, 2013

February Goal Post

Here are my February goals for UFO-busting. Top Three Lineup:


Charity Quilt 3 A perfect flimsy to try out some FMQ feathers. Been a flimsy since 2011 because it got lost in the stash - found during unpacking. (It's a wheel chair lap quilt.) I want to structure some community sewing such as this into each month. I miss the sessions I did with my Florida guild periodically. 




Amaretto Cottage - Just got home from its trip to Maine where it was stunningly quilted by Margaret Gunn!!  This baby MONSTER is getting bound!  It's ginormous at 112" x 112" (before quilting), so once I get the binding attached, who knows how many evening show sessions it's going to take to stitch down. The flimsy was made a year ago. The UFO status came from the complicated move, not from the quilter!





Hawaiian Etude Surely this will see its last hand quilting stitches this month.  :)  This has been shoved back into the UFO pile several times when bindings out-ranked it. Been in the works since July, which is really a shame considering how pretty it is and its small size at something like 15 inches.  Hawaiian quilting is intense, though - echoes and echoes and echoes. . . 





I do also have a special gift quilt in progress. Hoping to have it quilted and gifted by month's end. 




And I have a quilt-retreat weekend later in the month that I'm dedicating to catching up my Rainbow Jane. Hopefully this chart will be 3/4 filled by March 1.





Last month was a great one for quilting, as I I took a break from grad school for an apparently much-needed sanity breather in the face of many family challenges. (Plus I couldn't pay for this semester after covering the girls' term fees. . . )  

These were my finishes - 2 UFOs and a gift. Click on the images for their finish stories.









Now I have to get back to the reality grindstone, though. Research for my thesis needs doing and there's a professional conference presentation to do in 5 weeks (my first ever - terrified!!) So I'm hoping I can get my February goals accomplished. Not sure if they were over-ambitious. . . 

Linking up at 

Lynne's Year of the Finished Project:

Never Too Hot To Stitch!

Carrie's UFO program:

 

Leah's UFO Sunday FMQ:

UFO Sundays on the Free Motion Quilting Project

11 comments:

  1. You had some great finishes! And lots of great projects to play with this month :*)

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  2. Amaretto Cottage is simply stunning... and that is a LOT of binding to sew!

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  3. That Amaretto Cottage is to die for!! Love the colors and the quilting is divine!

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  4. Oh, my goodness. I just love looking at your cottage quilt. Each block and the quilting are marvelous. Good luck with your goals and with school.

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  5. WOW! That Amaretto Cottage quilt is absolutely gorgeous! I'm stunned at the work that was put into it!! What are you getting your degree in?

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  6. Wow! That Amaretto Cottage Quilt is Amazing! I can understand why you want to get it bound - it would take me forever on something that big!

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  7. I think it took me almost eight hours to bind my monster 110x120 quilt! So I hope you have a couple good movies picked out. ;) I can't get over that quilting - it's amazing!!

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  8. beautiful work and very busy! And grad school and family too! I'm wondering what a flimsy is, btw. I admire Hawaiian quilting - yours is lovely~ You remind me I need to do some philanthropy work as well!

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  9. Lots of goals! Good luck with the giant binding- I always hate that part- but it's such a beautiful quilt, having it finished will be wonderful!

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  10. Good luck on all your goals!! I love the MONSTER (LOL) quilt. It is fabulous.

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  11. Amaretto cottage is fabulous. Good luck with all your Feb. goals.

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