#5 UFO is finished

Yes, finished....pretty?..no.....ugly?..yes.....crooked?...yes.  LOL

My reputation as a quilter may be at stake here. this UFO was in the box for some time. some blocks were made already and others had pieces cut out. i pieced together the blocks that were cut out. after getting them all finished....i discovered that the first blocks that were made were 1/2 larger than the other blocks. who knows how that happened.

I didn't want to cut them down and mess up the pattern of the Churn Dash so i just scrunched them all together as best i could. so wherever a red block meets a white block...the red side has tucks. at this point i just want to say it is finished and done. this is what it SHOULD look like. hahahahaha

This is what mine looks like.

Looking from far away it is not bad. but i quit before making all the blocks so the intersections don't have cute little hourglasses like they should. i can live with that.

There was more than once that i wanted to just pitch it all in the trash. but was determined to get that UFO finished and out of here. having to report to Judy is incentive to finish.

It was total frustration and i don't like the final product at all. perhaps that is why it stayed a UFO for so long.

Don't know what i saw in that americana fabric in the middle...blech!  i have learned to not let things become UFOs...tastes change and what i liked a few years ago ..... i can't stand today. so, even though it is finished...it will not live here. it is going somewhere else...anywhere else.

The backing is a paisley of navy, red and white...although my pic is all fuzzy. but it worked for a backing.

Let's hope next month's UFO is something i like better.

Stay warm and be happy....i'll see ya

Later

October UFO Challenge

This is another class quilt that was designed by my friend, Marilea. She gave us the fabrics and each month we made a block. It took a year to complete and it's been aging in my quilting cabinet for a couple years. But thanks to Judy Laquidara's UFO Challenge for 2011...this one got finished. It was October's challenge.

I did something new for me with this one....i used 2 battings. wool on the bottom and warm and natural cotton on top. it is kinda heavy...but it will stay with me so it should keep hubby warm when he is complaining of being cold.

I used King Tut on the top and Bottom Line in the bobbin. I was pressed for time and decided not to get too fancy. It is all ruler work...i like the geometric feel of it. but don't let anyone tell you ruler work is quick...it took me 4 days.

Marilea gave us a story along with the instructions. about a woman named Sarah in the Civil War and her quilt. she always makes class interesting.

I'm glad i used her fabrics this time because i tend to use brighter fabrics but this one needed the darks.

It's hard to get a straight on pic of the back for me unless i take the quilt down and turn it around and i'm too lazy to do that. LOL

I keep telling myself to move the hanger another place but this spot works the best ... except for the back shot.

We are about to start this year's quilt and it looks rather challenging. Marilea tends to use 9" blocks and if you have lots of pieces you are cutting strange measurements. sometimes i redraw her design in EQ and make it a 12" block and that usually works out better for me....i don't like cutting 1/8s and 1/16s.

Now i have to get busy on November's challenge.....the monochromatic challenge is black and white and one color. i'm using yellow.