UFO and USO's

Last year I really worked hard to clean up some UFO's (UnFinished Objects). I did such a good job, my list is gone. Well, there are a few more UFO's in my stash, deep down. But what I want to work on this year are USOs: UnStarted Objects. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a quilt shop, bought fabric for a quilt I just HAD to make right then and the fabric is still sitting in my stash. I'm not talking about the odd fabric I've picked up to go into my stash, I'm talking about whole quilt's worth of fabric. Anybody else do that???

So this year's goal is to make some of those quilts and UFO Sunday will be my push to get going on some of them.

My current project, the koi pond quilt, is one of those quilts. I picked up this fabric last summer on a trip to Keepsake Quilting. I mean, how can anyone go to Keepsake and not buy fabric??? Well, I digress. So I've started this quilt to use this fabric, no new fabric was purchased in the creation of this quilt. I have the top completed, now onto the back. Again, I had the backing fabric in the stash, although not purchased at the same time. I wanted something to reflect the koi theme on the front, but more abstract.

 I'm kind of liking the the simplicity of the back. I have more of the navy fabric to add on to the top part.

Front

Back

I also tried another sample of the machine embroidered koi. I used the Quilters Dream Puff batting, which worked just fine, but still had a knotty mess on the back. So my next step will be to mark a sample and FMQ it.











On another topic, today is our third meeting for the Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild. I'm pretty excited how well this seems to be going. We are going to set a schedule for projects and demos we want to do.  Yippee, Skippee!!

Linking up with Leah Day for UFO Sunday!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat