Making progress

Even though February is a short month I have been making a lot of sewing progress.

Yesterday I was able to complete the little wall hanging that I started last week.  This top was a reward to myself for completing my February UFO. 

This quilt top was a free pattern from last year for Five Fat Quarter Fun called Chains of Love by Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl and Amber of Gigi's Thimble.  Here is a link to the pattern Chains of Love

I used red and pink from Mama's Cottage and the back ground is the little hearts from The Good Life collection.   And yes, they are directional and I made sure that they all went the same direction.

It went together very quickly.  I realized when I was making this that it is the first heart quilt of any kind I have made.  I am not sure why that is since I have collected heart patterns for a while.  I will now have to make more.

In addition to making the little quilt I also completed making a back for the Reflections quilt and I also made a back for another quilt which was another one on my list for the year.  That means I have completed two UFO's for the month of February. 

Today I actually pulled out another one to begin working on.  It has been sitting in my sewing room partially finished for at least 5 years.  It is a Christmas quilt.  I am hopeful that I will also get that one completed this month also.  I had put 12 projects on my list to work on this year I will have to figure out what other partially finished projects I have to add to the list.  

I have also been binding a quilt for my youngest daughter.  I made the top for her a couple of years ago but it just got quilted last month. 

I have at least 8 quilts in the binding pile.  I am hoping to get them all bound this year.  With the Olympics going on I have been doing more television watching and only have one side left on the current quilt it should be done by the weekend.

February 2018 UFO

I feel very accomplished this month.  I completed the UFO by February 6th.  I do still need to make a back but I should have that completed by tomorrow.

This quilt only needed boarders.  The first boarder was easy.  The second one not so much.  It is made from the bonus half square triangles from making the square in a square blocks.  To do that boarder I needed to make sure that they were the same size. That took a bunch of trimming.

I love these colors.

Once I got enough trimmed I attached the boarders.  I have a lot the squares left over to trimmed and put together an other quilt.

Here is the finished top.  The second boarder is really hard to see.  My husband was having trouble holding up this quilt.  Our old house had a front porch to stand on.  The current one does not.  We are going to have to find a way to get a better picture. 

This is actually my third quilt like this.  I have made one for each of my daughters.  I am currently binding one of the other ones as I 'watch' TV.

I started these after I visited the Art Museum for a Monet exhibit.  It is called Reflections.

I have now started on a new project.  I small valentines wall hanging.  Will I have it done by Valentine's Day?  The top will be together doubtful that it will be quilted.  Also the back for the Reflections quilt will be done.