Talk To Me Tuesday #32 Working from the UFO Bin

Several years back I purchased a couple medium flat rate mystery boxes of fabric. The boxes almost seemed magical because I just kept pulling out more and more fabric. Most of the fabric was novelty I Spy fabric. It was one of the big crazes back then. Mixed in among the fun fabrics were several baggies of quilt blocks. This week I decided to turn some of those blocks into quilt tops. I'll worry about getting them quilted after I pick up some batting. I'm waiting for my budget and the sales to collide so I can get enough batting for several projects.

Here are some pics in case you would like a closer view than what you get in the video:

Christmas table runner

Pinwheels

Mystery hsts

Star Wars drawstring bag

Construction vehicle drawstring bag

Autumn trees drawstring bag

         

Cupcake drawstring bag

You can find the bags in my RsIslandCrafts Artfire shop if you're interested in any of them.

HST 16 Patches

I've been busy trimming, pressing, and sewing hsts for my February UFO project. 

So far I think the purples are my favorite. No surprise there.

I like the blues in general but there's just too many floral prints for my taste but I'm someone will love them. They won't be as noticeable once sewn into a quilt so that helps.

When I started trimming hsts I was feeling a bit cocky and decided not to press the seams open. They came to me already stitched and pressed to one side so I was being lazy. I did end up pressing the long seams open on this group of 16 patches though. As I'm trimming the brown and green hsts I am re-pressing the seams open. For such small (3")  hsts there is just too much bulk otherwise. I don't normally press my seams open so this is a different process for me. It's a necessary step but not one I'm too fond of though.

TTMT #29 HSTs Galore

February's UFO

It's time to see what UFO I will be working on for February. This month's lucky number is #9. Number nine is a gallon size bag with individual sandwich baggies of hsts. A few years back I purchased a couple medium/large flat rate boxes jammed full of mystery fabrics. I don't remember the price but it had to have been a steal if I bought them. Among the random fabrics were some color sorted 3.5" hsts.

Of course they were all untrimmed. As I was trimming them down to 3.5" I found that a few of them would lose their points at 3.5" so I decided to just trim all of them down to 3". That way they would finish at 2.5" when sewn together.

I started with the blue baggie. If you know me you know these are not my colors. I'm all about the brights and strong colors and these feel a bit muddy and muted to me. Once I cut them down smaller I felt better about them. Still not my style but at least I can work with them now lol.

I think I will sew them into color chunks to start with. After that I'm not 100% sure what they will become.  Maybe they will become a lap quilt or I might just leave them as color block minis. We won't have to wait long to find out.

December's UFO

Over on Quilting Around the World  I've been participating in a year long UFO quilt along. This grey half square triangle (HST) is my December project. It's been a top for a few years at least but by the end of the year it will be a finished wall hanging or doll quilt or stroller quilt or whatever. Once this quilt is finished then I will have finished at least 12 old UFO's. I'll have to go through the forum and see how many projects I did get done this year. I don't normally keep up with BOMs so I'm very pleased that I've kept up with this UFO along this year. Stay tuned for the finished quilt before the end of the year.