Beware – Blog Reading Can be Hazardous to Your Project List

I caught up with reading all the blogs I track over the week-end.  (I use Bloglines to track them so I don’t have to physically visit each one to see if there is new content.)  A couple of blogs mentioned other blogs offering free Block of the Month programs in 2009.  I will probably end up doing both of the ones I stumbled upon.  The first one is called A Tisket A Tasket 12 Months of Baskets and is being offered by Bunny Hill Designs. 

Again the snowman drew me in.  I’m going to try to do this one all from fabric I already own.  I had a background fabric that would work and the rest of the pieces will be small so we’ll see how it goes.  I did most of the block last night.  It really is a simple design.  here is how mine came out.

The pattern suggested buttons on the garland and I substituted extra small yo-yos using the Clover yo-yo maker.  By the way the extra small yo-yos are harder to make look good than the bigger ones.

I’m ready for the next pattern, but will have to wait until next month.

Show and Tell a Motivator

Show and Tell can indeed be a motivator.  Today was our monthly Quilter’s Anonymous meeting. I only needed to put the last border on two sides of this Quilt and another UFO top would be finished.  I already had the borders cut to size so I ran downstairs first thing this morning and finished this top. (This was the second project I almost finished on Christmas Eve.)

The pattern is called “Warm Wishes” and it was in an older Quiltmaker magazine.  The full pattern is now available for free online.  Mine didn’t come out quite how I had intended.  The red strips are too similar in color to the focus fabric.  However, it is still a nice Christmas quilt.

It has been about a year since I made my UFO list, and I think I need to revisit my progress on that list.  If you just look at it on my sidebar, it looks like I haven’t done much.  However, 23 of those UFOs are now ready to be quilted and I have worked on several of the others over the last year.  I do have a few new projects that need to be added, but I’ve done way more in the last year on old projects than in the 10 previous years.  I’ll keep pluggin’ away.

Sin