November UFO #3 Twice as Nice – an Eleanor Burns Design

| December 1, 2011

It is that time again – the day to post our November UFO FINISH.  Judy Laquidara of Patchworktimes.Com picked #3 on our UFO list for us to complete for November – and I did it!  Here it is – my TWICE AS NICE QUILT.   This Eleanor Burns Pattern is interesting – three quilts from ONE [...]

Category: 2011 UFO LIST CHALLENGE, Eleanor Burns Quilt #2, Eleanor Burns Strippy #3, Happy Spools EBurns Quilt #1 | 8 Comments »
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What’s on my Design Floor …. June 13, 2011?

| June 13, 2011

I made myself a promise that I would never let quilts that are  AFBB “All Finished But the Binding” sit around and stack up.  I don’t want a stack of quilts to fill up my binding chair like  last year.    BUT ALAS, I think it is happening again!  Binding is my least favorite part [...]

Category: Caden's Green Bay Quilt, Design Wall, Eleanor Burns Strippy #3, Pinwheels and Posies | 6 Comments »
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Cakes are DONE, People are FINISHED – what about QUILTS – are they DONE DONE?

| May 30, 2011

While conducting  research at CAL STATE UNIVERSITY for my thesis, I was testing the memory of older and younger adults for learning new word processing procedures.  One morning, I peeked into the laboratory cubicle and very politely asked one of my research participants,  ”Are you done, Mrs. _____”? SHE (being an 85 year old retired [...]

Category: Eleanor Burns Quilt #2, Eleanor Burns Strippy #3, Happy Spools EBurns Quilt #1, Helping Joplin, Life Comments, Quilts in Progress, Ribbon Quilt - WEAVE | 2 Comments »
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Patchwork Times UFO Challenge #4 for April 2011

| April 30, 2011

My UFO Challenge Quilt #4 on the Patchwork Times list is an  Eleanor Burns pattern that I called Eleanor Burns Strippy Scrappy Quilt#3.   (This is her pattern where you make 3 quilts out of one jelly roll….pretty cool.)   The top is finished and it is with one of my long arm quilters as [...]

Category: 2011 UFO LIST CHALLENGE, Eleanor Burns Strippy #3, Quilts in Progress | 6 Comments »
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