Red, white and blue top

I've been piecing a lot of stuff....just not a lot of quilting going on. the to-be-quilted cabinet is really getting full. i need a clone who can quilt them up as i piece them. hahahaha

Here is my latest....a red, white and blue top....

I started out making this of selvages. i didn't want to use the selvages with the white part on it.  

And i didn't want to use the selvages with a prominent pattern. trying for plainer fabrics.

Well, i never thought i would say i am running out of selvages, but i seem to be. so i improvised and used regular strips of fabrics. i have plenty of those to choose from, too. left over bits of binding and whatever. once i sewed the strip down, i just sewed again over the edge...so at first glance it looks like a selvage strip sewed down.  it's a 'make do' attitude.



But even then i got to a point where there were no more fabrics that i really wanted to use. i wanted to make about 20 more blocks and make this larger but it just wasn't happening. and i really didn't want to put it in a box, unfinished. so, i added some borders and called it done.

In my original design the half blue blocks were on the bottom...but since i couldn't make more blocks....they wound up on the side. i guess that is ok. you have to be flexible...right?

So, this top goes to live in the to-be-quilted cabinet for now. it MIGHT get quilted next year. i have a huge plan for next year. i'm going to do the UFO Challenge thing again in 2013...but my goal is 3 projects a month. yeah...ambitious...but i think doable if i stay on task. i recently pulled out kits that i have been holding that i want to make. .... 12 of those.

Then i pulled 12 boxes that have a top partially done.

Then i pulled 12 sets of embroidered blocks that need to be pieced into a top.

So, in 2013, each month i will piece a kit, set embroidered blocks into a top, and finish a UFO top. i don't know if they will all get quilted...probably not....but by the end of the year.....36 more tops could concievably be in the to-be-quilted cabinet. of course, those won't all fit. i might need another cabinet. LOL

I guess that means 2014 will be the year to quilt up about 50 quilts. hahahahahaha

Meet me in the funny farm...you know...the place with the padded walls. hahahahahahaa

Later