"STITCHING MENDS MY SOUL"

Saturday, February 8, 2014

FEBRUARY UFO CHALLENGE


This is my February challenge.  I plan to quilt and bind my heart quilt this month.  What better month to work on it?  And since I plan to use big-stitch hand work with perle cotton, it will be perfect to stitch while watching the Olympics.

These hearts are from a swap on the DJ Alternate yahoo group back in 2009.  I finished the top that year, but it has languished along with my other 15+ tops that need quilting.  My bad!!!  The setting is using the Disappearing 9-Patch.  I posted about it on this blog way back then. 

Rosa recently quilted her's (well her DH did on his long-arm), and it reminded me of mine.  I worked on my blocks for this swap at the Dear Jane Retreat in Shipshewana, IN, in the fall of 2008.  Whew, that was a while back.  Brings back memories of the many on-line friends I met there, including Ruthie Quilts.  She was working on her's there too, it's the one with that lovely lace in the center'ish.

Happy stitching to my quilty friends. 

3 comments:

Emily Breclaw said...

Such a lovely and cheerful quilt! Good for you for finishing UFO's!

Nancy said...

Such a great colorful quilt. Lots of different hearts makes it look exciting.

Unknown said...

Hello Pat...
I hope you are well. Sewing taking a priority? Miss your blog... last I saw was your lucky events eith Jennifer's new yt? Al Union Sampler blocks book. Now are you making your own products ? Book? Lucky for you to be in Florida.. We here in the north are turning to ice-i-cles... I want to make Spring colors and joys to hang around the house and turn on every light in the house.... Maybe I will buy a few big photographers sunny lights..... gloom... cold.... and more snowstorms... I even stopped embroidering my Crabapple Hill Studio quilt 'Snowy Days' block.... and it's the last of 14! One I'd whip through, otherwise, with joy to being the last and assembly with the pieced blocks.... Weather sure can affect our emotions....