UFO Challenges for February

Judy pulled #1 for this month.

My piecing UFO was the greatest challenge.....it was the Canadian Women top. I did get it all together. I'm debating whether it needs a red border.

My quilting UFO #1 was a Stained Glass wall hanging

This was all done on the embroidery machine and was a challenge indeed to get the seams together and get it quilted.

I just love that colorful little turtle.

The embroidery UFO #1 is called Landscape Christmas. I did manage to finish 6 blocks and then said....enough. each one took 2 1/2 hours to embroider....with about 70 color changes each time.....and applique.  So, it's just a smaller wall hanging. There are 12 blocks in the set.

I did quilt a couple other things, too. I got this black and white selvage quilt finished.

And, I jumped on the band wagon for Amy's A Doll Like Me project and quilted 24 doll quilts and mailed them off Saturday. here are just a few...

Fishing and camping

Horse collage

Mini Geishas

Peter Rabbit

And crumb quilts. I cut up a crumb quilt top and made 12 doll quilts from it. haha

Someone on MQR shared a quilt ... pattern called Woven...so, I liked it and made a few tops...not quilted yet.

The first with Peter Rabbit...

The next with alphabet fabrics...

And then one with Julius Monkey

I have started an embroidery project...crazy quilt 8" squares. the pattern is from Molly Mine.  she does fabulous embroidery digitizing...you might want to check her out.

And, I am still in doll quilt mode, so, have pieced 12 new tops so far. I have put the tops, backing, and binding all together....and in a few weeks will quilt them all up and send them to Amy.

I hope your creative month went well. I am definitely having fun with mine.

Last of the Doll Quilts .... for this batch

Are you sick of doll quilts? well, good news....this is the last of them. I made the last 5 crumb quilts today

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#8... look how bright it is when i use the flash on my camera. hahahaha

I quilted spikes....like an EKG

Back is moon and stars fabric from my sister. 

#9.. I think panto is called Velvet Queen

There's a little tomato

A cute alphabet print for the back

#10 ..

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I put freeform hearts in each block, traveling along the seam lines across the row. see part of Spiderman's name?

Back is a green plaid from the stash.

#11... 

Panto is Whirlpool by Sharon Springler

Backing from the stash

And, last, #12... panto is Bright and Breezy by Lorien Quilting

An embroidery red flower

I love this alphabet print

And, that, my friends, concludes this box of doll quilts. I made 24 in all. what a great time i had doing it. now, i have to rest my brain for a day and come up with something different for the next batch.  i have an idea or two whirling around up there.

Yesterday's Doll Quilts

My goodness....I was so busy getting today's doll quilts finished.....the last of them....that I forgot to show you yesterday's progress.

Only 3....all crumb quilts.

#5

I used muslin on the back and a Dave Hudson panto with horses, boots, a badge and gun

#6

Heartstrings panto by Jodi Beamish

#7

B is for....Barbara, Ben, Bill, Bernice....hope there is a child whose name starts with B for this one.

I liked the Heartstrings panto and used it here again.

Just a few more, then the crumb quilts are finished.

Still in Doll Quilt Mode

I got a few more quilted yesterday. I can't stop. haha

First ...there's a tractor quilt...Case....I used my John Deere in other quilts (sorry, John Deere people). A collage of tractors, barns and cows.

Back is a flannel

Then I got to thinking how to make more doll quilts even quicker. So, i dug in the to-be-quilted cabinet to see what i could cut up. I found this crumb quilt that was pieced in October, 2015 and decided it was the perfect candidate. I really liked those 9 patches, but decided it could be sacrificed for doll quilts. I cut it up... 5 blocks x 6 blocks. the blocks are 5". I got 10 doll quilts from this. So far, I have quilted up 4 of them. 

Crumb quilt #1

When I pieced these, i used all scraps i had. see the chicken and eggs in the red?. and the little star in the bottom yellow block is an embroidery ornament. haha  

Backing is from the stash. I quilted wavy lines over the seams.

Crumb quilt #2.  I used leftover pieces of binding on these, too. and leftover pieces of batting. this project is using up lots of stuff...i love it.

There is the head of a princess here....and the end of a hot dog in a bun

It has the same backing...i was quilting 2 at a time. This one got wavy lines in an X pattern in each block. 

Crumb quilt #3. the orange block has an alphabet block...W for wrench

There's a witch on her broom

Backing is again from the stash....a bright green sunflower print. I did SID in the seams and then stitched 3 lines in each block, alternating between vertical and horizontal.

And, finally, crumb quilt #4...i seem to have lost the pic of the whole thing....but you get the idea.

The same sunflower print for the back. this time i quilted spirals in the blocks, traveling across the row.

Now, back to my doll quilting...hahaha....as soon as the furnace give me a bit more heat and my fingers are no longer frozen. would be nice to be flush enough to leave the heat on all night. ah well, builds character....right?   that's what my grandma would say. she woke up to a cold house every morning until she got more coal into the stove and got it fired up. i know....i lived with her for a while. it was my job to go out into the coal shed with buckets to bring back coal for the stove. brrrrr    but i survived it  (probably more than you wanted to know). hahahahaha