I am just pitiful!

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Kim

The idea of finishing one UFO a month was great. After all, I could manage to get one quilt quilted a month right?

WRONG.

January I had the problem of not being able to sandwich a quilt. It was a good excuse. I didn’t want to damage my new dining room table. Then my friend Joan came to my rescue and sent me a video on a new method. I will admit that I was interested, so about midway through the month, I finally got around to going to the hardware store for some boards.

I tried it and liked it. It was SO easy to sandwich a quilt. I did change the method up just a little to suit me better. I drew a line on the board at the halfway point. I then marked the center point on each end of the quilt with masking tape. I also taped down the first edge so that it was easier to roll up.

I managed to get three quilts sandwiched in two days. A record for me.

I even started to quilt one. But it wasn’t one on my UFO listing to the right. It was one from my list way back in January. Oh well. I still have March, right? It shouldn’t be hard to quilt a bunch of quilts this month, right? Considering I still have to sandwich two of them? Do you think I can do it?

How did I do with my February Goals?

Date Done	Project	Task
2/16/2010	Home For the Holidays	Sandwich
	Home For the Holidays	Quilt
	Home For the Holidays	Bind
2/17/2010	Friendship Braid	Sandwich
	Friendship Braid	Quilt
	Friendship Braid	Bind
	Simply Sophisticated	2 Blocks
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Blocks into Top
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Inner Borders
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Piano Key Border
	Triple Scoop	Sandwich
	Triple Scoop	Quilt
	Triple Scoop	Bind
2/17/10	Pumped Pumpkins	Sandwich

My March goals are:

Sandwich Triple Scoop
Quilt Triple Scoop
Bind Triple Scoop
Quilt Friendship Braid
Bind Friendship Braid
Quilt Pumped Pumpkins
Bind Pumped Pumpkins
Quilt Home for the Holidays
Bind Home for the Holidays
Piece Back for Designer Mystery 2008
Sandwich Designer Mystery 2008
Quilt Designer Mystery 2008
Bind Designer Mystery 2008

Nancy husband has picked #2 for the UFO challenge this month. At least it is one that I already have the backing for and don’t have to buy any. Yea!

January Goals Revisited

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Kim

How did I do on my January goals?

Opportunity Quilt – 6 blocks - I did part of them and handed them over to the Chair for this project to complete.
Friendship Braid – Piece Backing – Completed!
Simply Sophisticated – Two Blocks - Completed not only the two blocks that I wanted to do, but finished the top.
Sweet Treasures – Two Blocks – yea… didn’t get to this one
Friendship Braid – Bind – nope
Friendship Braid – Quilt – nope
Friendship Braid – Sandwich - nope, I am having problems sandwiching now that I have a new dining room table.
Pastel Lucky Stars – Complete Binding – yes, this was done
Home for the Holidays – Piece Backing - yes, this one got completed
Home for the Holidays – Sandwich - again, nope because of the problems with sandwiching things
Home for the Holidays – Quilt - nope
Home for the Holidays – Bind - nope

All in all a productive month, but some things I really wanted to do didn’t get accomplished. I do need to find a way to sandwich my quilts without having to put them on the floor. I used to put them on my kitchen table and clamp the layers to the table and then pin. I got a new dining room table at the first part of the year and now I don’t want to mess it up at all. I tried to use my table in my sewing area, but I can’t clamp to it because the table is too thick.

I hope you had a productive month too!

Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Kim

Happy New Year!

This is the year. I am going to get back to listing my monthly goals. You can see up there on the tab that states “Goals for 2010″ – they will stay up there every month. This is what I have so far. Why I say “so far” is because I don’t know what the quilt for the UFO Challenge will be this month. I will update my list when it becomes available.