January 2018

It is hard for me to grasp that January has come and gone.

The good news is that I have finished my January UFO.  Or at least gotten it to the flimsy stage.

This quilt was started for The Fat Quarter Shop QAL in 2016.  I was doing fine on it as a QAL until we made the decision to sell our old house and move into a one level.  Once the decision was made it was time to start purging and packing.  Of course I was not going to purge my project but the sewing room was one of the rooms that was packed up early on in the process.  So this was packed away in a bin, in a moving box.

It took a while to get the old house ready to sell so that was the project I was working on all of last winter.  We had already bought the new, if a 70's ranch can be called new, but not much sewing was being done.  Bins had been unpacked and put on racks, but that was about as far as I got with my fabric.  We finally got the house on the market in June.  We had to wait for the rain to stop to get it painted.  We got offers at the end of the summer but of course it took until October to close.  In the mean time I was working full time and commuting at least two hours a day plus checking on the old place and watering the lawn all summer.  My husband and I were taking turns doing that since he was busy everyday babysitting the grandkids.

Then I needed to find my sewing mojo.  I had only sewing two baby gifts and a mini quilt in all that time.  But even after the house sold I had no motivation.

The UFO challenge this year was exactly what I needed.  I have so many 'almost finished' projects.  Two only need the boarders added.  I wonder what it is about the boarders that stops me?

Speaking of boarders....this UFO had five boarders.  That almost stopped me in my tracks, but I powered thru them.  I even made the back and the binding.  I did not get a picture of the back because it got to dark tonight to take a picture.

Here is the front.  It was not a totally rainy day but not the brightest either so the colors look more washed out than they actually are.  To take this picture I was standing on a stool to try and capture the entire quilt.  The fabric is Strawberry Fields Revisited by Fig Tree.

Now I just need to get started on the February UFO.  I am hoping it is a small project since it is a short month.

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