UFO Challenge from Patchwork TimesIm

I generally do the UFO Challenge every year.  Last year was Flood Year so it was a non-UFO Challenge year.  I will do it this year though.  I couldn't resist a good list!

The gist of the game is to list 12 UFO projects and each month Judy will call a number.  You work on that one and post the end result.  And hopefully get 12 finishes in December 2018.

I will need to combine UFO Challenge projects with OMG projects.  Otherwise I will overwork myself to death by June.

Here is my list for the year:

1.  Bind Swimming Pool and Triangles
2.  Red Riding Hood - Paper pieced
3.  Finish London Tea Towel
4.   Finish Bird is the Word
5.  Quilt Orange Mystery Houses
6.  Quilt Foxes
7.  Finish GreenSquares BlackTriangles
8.  Quilt diamond Dogs and finish
9.  Make Birds of the World for Frank
10. Zig Zag needs quilting
11. Quilt Modern Guild Houses
12. QuiltCorner Traditional needs quilting


I guess I need to  post photos of these and put it on my blog header so I can find it again.

There are a couple other quilts I want to get done this year.  One is the Elizabeth Hartman Llama quilt Lloyd and Lois.  The other is a Yeti Quilt for Sawyer.  I want to get more modern and improv through the year as well.

I spent a lot of time doing quilts I liked OK, and then fell into the Modern genre.  That is where I want to live now!  Like my closet after the flood.  I only buy with a LOVE now.

It is amazing how cleansing losing everything can be.  I still don't understand why my clothes got tossed though.  And all my underwear.  And socks.  I didn't have one pair of undies to my name!

Monday Morning Plans

We had dinner (tamales!) with Carrie and her In-Laws on Saturday night.  I am so glad Carrie has a great relationship with Fayne.  I was so hated by Frank's mother and father, and she barraged Frank with such negative thoughts about me constantly.  It is something that affected my entire life.  It seemed like there was never anyone in my corner.

I ate too much and definitely went off my diet!

So I need to find some veggie recipes for the week.  He insists on eating some sort of meat at lunch so I am working to find less meat/fish/beans in our night meal.  

I am working kitting some things to take with me to Retreat in a few weeks.  Here are the things I need in the next months:

1.  Raffle Quilt for Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Rescue (It will be a bright one)
2.  REME October Challenge (Black and White and a Color)
3.  River City February Challenge (Secondary Patter
4.  A buttload of Quilts that need to be quilted!

The Swissy Raffle quilt has a linen tea towel with a Saint Bernard on it.  It has the Swiss Cross and I was thinking at first to make a quilt with the crosses, like the Locked and Loaded one.  I really don't have a choice of colors in there.  I wonder who was on drugs when they made this tea towel!

Can you see that lower right corner?  That is the "pattern" I will generally follow.  I think it will be a spectacular quilt actually.  And the colors may be fantastic.  Here is another example of working outside your box.  These colors are definitely NOT in my box.

I was choosing some fabrics for the Swissy Raffle Quilt for the Rescue Organization.  Pat Saxon put out call for donations.  Swissy Rescue has rehomed 9 of 13 dogs pulled from homes across the US this year.  Nearly twice as many as they have in past years.  This is where you see the difference between a good breeder and a not so good breeder.  A good breeder will take their puppy from an owner at any stage in that dog's life.  A good breeder will make sure the pups they produce always have a good home and are willing to step up.

If you are not willing to do this, DO NOT BREED!  There are so many dogs out there, find your chosen breed and work to get all dogs into good homes. 

I want organizations like CAAWS to no longer be needed!

I have my Jane Dunnewold Class I need to work on as well.  It is frustrating because my computer does not like to show videos and it gets stuck on one photo while she describes the topic of the week on 15 others.  I have pretty much forsaken the class because I am tired of fighting it for an hour or two.

This computer has failed miserably in what it was supposed to do for me.  I wanted one that be for editing photos and creating slideshows and showcasing the quilt work.   But I fight this one.

And then there is the keypad that is finicky and randomly chooses a letter to not work every day or two.

And I spent so much money on it I have to keep it till it dies.........can you say accidental death?

Yeah.  Accidental.

12 UFOs for Patchwork Times Challenge

OK, here is my narrowed down list.  I am ready for Judy to pick her numbers!
I have combined since there were so many and some are in a more advanced state of being.  Some are blocks and some are tops just waiting to be completed.  Carrie says I have to give away some of these quilts before making more.  So that might be in the future as well.  Although how one can give away a child of your own making is beyond me.  I didn't give HER away, did I????


1.  Elephants from Sri Lanka
2.  New Year's Mystery Dog
3. Cow I and Cow 2
4.  Stacked Posey and Blue/Beige Row Quilt
5. Frank's Transportation Quilt and Progressive Jar
6.  Outhouse Blocks and Mystery Orange Snowballs
7.  Mystery Blue Snowballs and Patch No Work
8.  (3) Bumble Beans 15 Minute quilts
9.  Progressive Jar and Karen's Watermelon Quilt
10.  Virtual Quilting Bee Warm/Cold and Christmas Scrappy
11.  My House Hanging and Sassi Strippers Red/Green Mystery
12.  Matthew's Saints and The Polar Bears