SAO Quilts and other Projects Finished in 2011

| August 14, 2016

In 2007 I finished 17 quilts. In 2008 I finished 19 quilts. In 2009 I must have been completely crazy – it appears I made 34 quilts in 2009. I slowed down a little and ONLY made 27 in 2010…..and here is the total for 2011 – 27 plus lots of other projects!   SAO […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]