Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Stashbusting, UFO's and Snow

The kids have today off from school and when we woke up this morning there was about 5 inches of snow!! Yay!! So as they warmed up I headed downstairs to quilt for an hour or so. So technically I have my "work" done for the day ;-)


After breakfast we headed out to the hill to go sledding - it was a blast and of course I did not take my camera - but after an hour we were cold. So as they watched "surfs up" I finished block number 10 on a quilt that has 12 different blocks. I started this quilt in January and you would think I would be done - but alas it became a UFO. It is sitting in a nice little box with all sorts of scraps just patiently waiting.... So now there is another blocks finished.


Then I got a book at the quilt shop - an Atkinson designs one. I just love her stuff. So I grabbed 12 FQ's from my fabric cubbies and cut them up. I got all the blocks done and had to go in search of some border fabrics. Found them and they are now in the dryer. So if I stay motivated I might actually get the borders on and have this top finished before 2008 :-)


I leave you with a picture of a quilt that was displayed at a quilt show last month. It was in Johnstown and was a fun day. I really liked this one because it was a string quilt and was really random, yet really drew your eye to it!

5 comments:

Vicki Suan said...

Alycia, that string quilt looks like the one I'm working on. The pattern is by Patti Anderson of Patchpieces.com. I was reading your entry on QOV. You are amazing at what you do for them. You motivate me.

Helen in the UK said...

The string quilt looks a bit like an optical illusion doesn't it - very interesting :)

Mary-Frances said...

Well HEY YOU! Imagine finally finding you on a blog! How is life and the kids?

Granny said...

Good luck on the stash busting. You can do it!! I love that string quilt. Glad to see someone posted the pattern for it.

Val's Quilting Studio said...

2007!!!!what a great opportunity to rejuvinate this post!!! I smiled at your hubby checking things out! Lol.