Thursday, January 31, 2013

Un-UFO-ing: A completed 9 patch quilt

The UFO story - I started this quilt way back - maybe 2 years ago? I made 25 blocks from scrap fabric, then got tired of the project, stuffed the blocks into a bag, and promptly relegated it to UFO-land.

Due to a silly most excellent 2013 resolution - I pulled the blocks out, made 75 additional blocks, pieced them together, basted, quilted, and bound. Phew!

Which means - the quilt - she is done!


I laid it out on my bed to take a quick photo. Quick being the operative word - I evidently didn't bother with smoothing it down.


As always, I had 'help' quilting.


Little Biscuit is seriously the world's most indulged cat. She wedged herself on the quilt in such a way I couldn't move it at all. And then, she looked annoyed when I continued sewing. (In fact, she's now head-butting me so I can't type.)


 As always with quilting, my philosophy is to use up scraps. These two blocks contain left-over fabric from 4 items of clothing I've sewn - this green BWOF dress, this floral vintage, this top and a pink skirt that I evidently never blogged about, but which was the second skirt I've ever made! (No new fabric purchased - I stole the sashing fabric from my mother's stash.)


And this one uses left-overs from my PJs. What can I say? I'm really bad at throwing away scraps.



For backing, I used a stash fabric, bought at Bouclair, when they were closing out their garment fabric section. This was over 5 years ago, I think. I have a ton of fabric from that shopping trip, and I'm glad to use this piece up. (And I used almost all of it up, score! I just have a 6 inch strip left - easily used for something else!)


In the era of high speed internet access, do people still apologize for picture-heavy posts? If so, my apologies.

This hits one 2013 goal (quilting UFO finishing), and one stash fabric used. (Only 24 to go!) Not only that, but since I used some itty-bits in its construction, I think I'll link it up to the Stashbusting Sewalong, as well.

Ah, the smugness.

And now, sewing for me. (This quilt is a very belated Christmas gift.) The Jan Burda awaits, and hopefully, a house-project-free weekend.


6 comments:

Kay said...

yayyyy!!! great job, Reethi!

Elaray said...

You quilted that large quilt on you sewing machine! That certainly inspires me! I love piecing quilts, but I hate quilting them!

Clio said...

Yay for stash busting and getting rid of UFO's! Hooray!

Andrea said...

Good for you for using up so many scraps and for finishing up an old UFO. And now you can both smug AND warm & toasty!

Claire S. said...

I love seeing your finished quilts. One of these days, maybe I'll get past 'want to make' to actually making one LOL

Sally Burch said...

Such a simple idea, and so beautifully finished! I think I'll have to start a quilt soon.....

Oh and posts with lots of photos - the best type! Love them. ;)