An Older UFO Finish

 Back in early January, I had shared that a friend and I have challenged each other to paring down our UFO lists this year.  We picked 12 projects and then I drew a number for January.

Here is the project that came up for me.  I was gifted all these fabrics from a friend years ago - She had fallen out of love with them.  Part of the fabric was already cut into strips.  And there was already a backing piece, so I didn't want to break it up and put all the fabric in my stash.  Looks like January was the month I was going to finally do something with it.

I am proud to say I finished the quilt on the last day of January!

I decided to keep it really simple and make a stacked coin quilt with the fabrics.  I didn't want to be too fussy about the strip width so I didn't have to match seams.

I cut everything into 8.5" strips and sewed them together like the blocks above.  Then I just sewed them together into columns.

I think it looks pretty go!

I really like the quilting I did.  I quilted in horizontal lines about 1.5" apart.  Then I went back over some of the lines with a soft curve.

It measures about 60 x 70" so it is a nice sized lap quilt.  I will most likely list it in my Etsy shop.  I really like the quilt but I have just too many quilts around my hose right now.

Here is a photo of the lovely purple backing.  There was even a fun striped fabric in the pile for the binding.  I still have a lot of the fabric leftover but I ended up putting it all into fabric stash.

The UFO number for February has been drawn but my friend and I each have to spend time finding the projects drawn!  Mine is an ancient one...I will be sharing it soon. As soon as I find it!!

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Then This Happened

 A few days ago, I had the bright idea to rummage through my orphan blocks to see if there were any I wanted to turn into some quick placemats.

It seemed like a bright idea because look at the state of my orphan block storage.  I have a cute little suitcase that I keep my orphans in and this is no it.  This is the big box I had to start using because my suitcase is overstuffed.

So digging out a few for placemats seemed like a win.

But then this happened....small bits in pretty green and oranges ended up on my empty design wall and soon I was more interested in these bits than the search for placemat blocks.

I am not quite ready to say I have started a new project.  If some of you remember, my goal this year was to reduce the number of started projects this year.  I think I will let this sit on the wall and we will see how interested I am in it after a few days.

...but I think my willpower is dwindling!

Hope you are finding time this week to play in your sewing rooms!

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Connecting Threads has added some fun fabrics to their clearance section.  

Don't you love those stripes!

Oh Scrap! : Final Red Letters

 Whew!  I finished all of my red letters needed for my banner just under the wire.

My goal was to complete them by the end of January.

The C and the G took a bit to finish. I was quite amazed at all the shades of red solids I had hidden away in the scrap bin.  

Here are the letters I have so far.  A little birdie told me the color for February in the comments on my last post so now I know I just have the letter I to make next month.  I will start pulling scraps today!

(As a fan or Wordle and Wordscapes, the above letters would be a big head scratcher!)

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