UFO Progress

I am darting away from UFO work today….well not really.

I have a stack of quilts here that are UFO status.  It’s all the charity quilt that blog readers have been sending my way!!  Yesterday I told you a bit about our son Karl and his predicament with student teaching in Houston.  I also told you that I fired up the quilting machine and went to work trying to finish as many quilts as I could for him to take with him when he went.    I showed you two yesterday…today I’m showing you three more.

As I said yesterday.  I grabbed whatever was on top of the pile.  I didn’t care what it was or size.  If there was a backing and top, that’s the quilt I did.

This one Colleen Hicks from Iowa donated.  She gave it to me when she attended the retreat we held in August.  It was a cute little top done in flannel.  It’s baby quilt size and Colleen had the top AND the backing for me.

Just a quick meander was the quilting design.  Pastel thread for the top and blue for the backing.  I had trouble finding a binding as I was trying to match the blues, then saw a wonderful orange that matched perfectly so orange binding it was!!

The backing was flannel too.  It was oh-so comfy.

The next top is from Maryanne Comly in Perkasise, PA.  This top was super bright and VERY fun.  It’s a great scrappy quilt mixing all sorts of brights.  This a lap-sized.

Simple straight line quilting was done on this….A variegated yellow to orange was used on the top.

The backing was a good lime green sheet with lime green thread.  This quilt was so fun to work on with the bright fun colors.  Some kiddo will love this one!

Next up is a quilt top done by Laura Hervey in Dallas, TX.  It’s a simple nine patch but oh, I liked it!  Sorry for the bad picture.  I had about 5 minutes to photograph all of these before Karl left.  I didn’t get a chance to check the images before he left.

I loved the quilting on this.  I had more time to do this one as I had it on the machine and started before the hurricane hit.  This is a “go-to” design for me.  If I can’t decided what to do, this motif often pops into my mind….see?

I had a perfect backing for this.  The colors matched so well.  Really, I couldn’t have gotten a better backing.  It was a flat sheet I found at the thrift store.  It was in excellent shape so I bought it with the hope of finding a top that would match it someday.

I also sent the baby quilt I did over the summer.  I thought it might as well be sent off and used rather than catching dust here.

All in all I sent out SIX quilts with Karl.  I hope that they are useful to people.

I’m hoping to get to some more charity quilts.  With physical therapy my shoulder is doing a little better.  It’s hard to not over do it….Having a sense of urgency and being careful all at the same time can be hard.

I’ll be back next week. I don’t know if I’ll have charity quilts to share or if I’ll be back to UFO quilting….or hopefully a little of each!!