Accomplishment!

Yesterday I was able to sew three of the blocks for Mr. P's quilt and today I finished the last two.

Here are all them together. I know how I want to set them but I need to buy some fabric for the sashing. These blocks are from a quilt that Dawn Heese designed. You can see her quilt here. I am going to set my differently because I don't want my quilt to be a square. Stay tuned to see my setting. Thanks for sharing your quilt with us, Dawn.

 So this week I will work on my row along from Lori Holt's blog, the mittens row.  Until tomorrow I will go ahead and continue my hand quilting and link up to Kathy's blog for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Kudos go to LynCC of What a Hoot!,  and Mama T of Mama T Keeps you in Stitches. and Simone de Klerk for finishing their first UFO!  You go girls!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

2013 is the year to Finish!

Yesterday I had my whole day planned out. Then the interruptions came. Nothing major but they did change my plans for the day. I had planned to get the three blocks sewn on Mr. P's quilt. I did get some pieces sewn. I will see if I can get them done today. I was also able to do a little hand quilting while watching TV last night.

One thing I have noticed since the new year started is that many bloggers have the same idea of working on UFOs. One such challenge is called a Lovely Year of Finishes hosted by Melissa and Shanna.  You can read more on their blogs.  You pick one project to finish each month. So I am linking up and I will finished the mitten row and any other row that Lori puts on her blog this month.

Lynne is also hosting a party to finish all kinds of projects, not just quilting UFOs. You can read more here.

Just a words about my challenge. The title "Nothing but UFOs" is really for me and of course, any one else who wanted to just work on UFOs this year. I know how hard it is to not start something new. And if you do that it is fine but you are welcome to join in any month with your three UFOs for the month and link up. You still have time to link up today with your post showing what you are going to work on. And you can also link up to the other blogs that I shared today.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Working on my UFOs

I wanted to show you my progress of my UFOs so far. As you can see I finished block #12 from the Aurifil Designer BOM. Isn't it cute?

 Check out her braids. This block was designed by the girls at LizzieBCre8ive.

 Here are all the blocks together and all done. This will be on my UFO list for February. This was a fun BOM to do. Each block was a mystery.

Each month Aurifil gave a box of thread to one person who entered their embroidery on the Flickr page. I won this beautiful thread in November. I can't wait to give it a try. Thanks Aurifil!

I got block #8 cut out for Mr. P's quilt.

 #9...

 and #10 cut out. I plan to cut out #11 and #12 today. My plan is also to sew all five blocks.

Here are the sections I finished of my hand quilting UFO.

What can I accomplish today? I will be sure to share later. I hope you are having fun working on your UFOs. I will be checking on your progress later. You still have time to link up to this post.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

UFO giveaway

Have you picked out some UFOs to work on this year? Yesterday I was visiting those bloggers who linked up to my post. I see some of them are also hand quilting on some UFOs.

Nancy-Rose shared some awesome Smart UFO quilting goals on her blog. Great tips. Check them out. They might help you to figure out how to get some of those UFOs sewn up this year.

I would like to introduce a new blogger. Go by her blog, Holli of NautiStitcher when you get done here and say hi. She sews on a boat.

Now for the giveaway. Here is what you what you have a chance of winning if you finish one UFO that you had listed on your post for the month of January. I will send the winner of this giveaway the book called Spring Mill Days. In the photo below you can see the cover quilt. The back of the book also shows the patterns in the book.

 I will also send you one yard of this Moda fabric. It has been washed.

You can read more about the UFO challenge here and see my UFOs that I will be working on here. You have until Jan. 4 to link up here.

I did work on hand quilting my daughter's quilt and I finished the little Aurifil BOM embroidery. I will share that finish tomorrow.

Keep working on those UFOs.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

A New Year with UFOs

It is 2013! A time for reflecting! I just wanted to wish you all a Blessed New Year! I would like to thank you all for visiting my blog, for all your words of encouragement, your friendship, and all the inspiration you share. I have really enjoyed another year of blogging and meeting new friends. So with that said I wish you 365 days of success in your quilting endeavors.

I wish you success in making your UFO pile smaller. Today is the day for you to go through your piles of UFOs and pick out three you would like to finish in this new month of January. 

I have picked out four things to work on this month. First is this row along with Lori Holt. I have  a row of mittens to make and she mentioned that there would be another row to make this month. So I will make that one also, whatever it may be.

Next, I have to catch up on making five blocks from this quilt that Dawn Heese shared on the Henry Glass website. They all came out in December. Because I had to take a break from sewing and blogging I got behind. Remember this is the quilt I am making for Mr. P?

And will this quilt ever get done. Ugh! This is an autograph quilt I made for my daughter when she graduated high school. She is now twenty-six years old and I am still working on it. I know, I am pititful! I have the binding on because I wanted to make sure my hand quilting didn't get covered up by the binding on the outer edge of the quilt.

I am almost finished with the last Aurifil embroidered BOM.

My list for January!
1. Make the mitten row and any other rows Lori makes in January.
2.Make 5 blocks for Mr. P's quilt.
3.Finish hand quilting daughter's quilt.
4. Finish embroidering block.

If you would like to join in write a post about what you will work on for January and add it to the link below. I look forward to seeing what you all have chosen to work on. And just to clarify, A UFO to me is something that you have already started in some manner.

Come back tomorrow and I will show you the giveaway for those of you are participating in doing UFOs this year. Be sure to do a blog post showing what you will be working on.

With Passion,
Carrie P.