TEN UFO Sightings!

No, no!  ET has NOT landed.. but MY UFOs has!  You know those UnFinished Objects you ignore up to a point when you realize its either time to finish them or forget them completely!  Well I have ignored my UFO's for far too long now, and decided that this year I am going to do my very best and finish what I've started.  

So I am joining in this years' a lovely year of finishes hosted by Fibre of all sorts and Sew Bitter Sweet Designs.

The plan is, to finish off at least one, either old or new project in one month.  Now I have more than enough projects to keep me busy for quite some time, but there is at least one project that I am sure that I wont be able to complete in one month, and that is my one inch hexies quilt.  There are over 1500 basted hexies to piece together, so I am going to make it my goal to piece at least 50 together in a month.  This will not be part of the linkup I am sharing over at a lovely year of finishes but just a personal goal I want to set for myself.  If I dont make it, its okay too, I just feel that unless I push myself I wont finish at all!

So for January I am going to concentrate on my clam-shell crochet blanket.  I am close to finishing it, and to just get into the whole idea of completing something before month-end I am going to keep it simple.  I want to add at least another 10 inches to this blanket (at 47 inches wide), so it should be finished it no time.  

There is a catch though, it is summer, and with temperatures going up to 34°C (93°F) it is going to be,... well ... HELL, lol.

But I am hopeful, and I am going to get it done!

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UFO Sunday

These past few weeks have been hectic.  All good fun though.  

My dad had his 70th birthday last weekend (I shared with you the Golf themed quilt I made for him) and as a surprise my sister and her family who lives in the UK came to South Africa to surprise my dad.  I was the only one who knew about it, and we planned it since last year July.  It was so hard to keep the secret for so long, but it was definitely worth while.  It was so nice having the whole family together.  

So during the past few weeks there wasn't really time for any sewing or quilting, but I made some time to sort out some of my scraps.  

I've been very inspired by all the hexie quilts out there, and what better way to make some good use of all the scraps I've been collecting in a drawer over the past year.  I'm not even sure what I'll end up with, or how big this quilt will be.  It does not even matter how long this will take, it could be years.  All I want to do is to use up all of my scraps.  I hate to throw out any fabric, and this way ALL of it gets used and the bits that will now end up in the bin, is really too small to keep or use.  

I've finished assembling my twister quilt top.  This was meant to be an experiment, trying out the Lil' Twister tool.  After seeing how easy it really is I will definitely want to make something bigger.

As I've mentioned my sister is here for a two week visit from the UK, she's a Stampin'Up demonstrator, you can visit her blog HERE and see all the gorgeous cards she's made.  She brought some of the fabrics they use in their crafts and asked me to make a bag for her.  So I thought of using my own pattern, only this time I'm quilting the panels.  I'm not done yet, but will soon share some pictures.

Free downloadable pattern

I'm linking up to UFO Sunday with Leah Day @ The Free Motion Quilting Project.

PS.  Remember to come back tomorrow for the "Anything Goes" linky party.  

Happy quilting

Let the cutting begin...

Don't you just like trying out new gadgets?  The Lil' Twister Tool might not be new to many of you, but I got mine only recently and thought of trying it out today.  I decided to try something small to get the feel of it and not attempt to make something fancy or an intricate design yet.  If its a complete failure, I would not mess up too much fabric, or waste too much time...

I used a Lost and Found charm pack from Riley Blake, since it only has 21, 5 inch pieces I thought it would be perfect.  So I got all my pieces sewn together ready to start cutting.

I got some good practice rotary cutting with my left hand, a bit tricky in the beginning but I soon got the hang of it.  This will really be a small quilt, nice to use as a wall hanging maybe...

1st row cut, placed in order

By the way, after my post showing off my sewing room, I decided it was high time that I get a  better camera and stop talking about getting one... so I placed the order yesterday, should be here tomorrow.. cant wait!!  Be warned, picture overload may occur.

Here is something I saw on Facebook the other day, admittedly I laughed and thought it was soooo funny, ........ real or hoax?

I am linking up to WIP Wednesdays @ Freshly Pieced.

Happy quilting