Showing posts with label old red barn co. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old red barn co. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Soldiering on.

Made with MoMo's Freebirds line.
I feel like all my posts are too similar lately -- one picture and either a bag or a flimsy. But other than the QALs that I couldn't stop myself from joining, I have been trying to finish up older projects. I have made 6 or 7 backs for quilt tops that have been lying around a while. So even though my sidebar number is actually going up, I am making progress towards finishing things.
This is Old Red Barn QAL #6 -- Hexies. I think they're up to #9 or something. I had all these in rows and just had to sew them together. I was thinking initially that it wasn't big enough and that maybe I would add a border. However, in the interest of ever finishing this, I think I'll just keep it as-is. I have some leftover layer cake squares that I can put on the back -- along with perhaps a solid. Sometimes I despair of ever getting my numbers down, but I'm just going to keep at it and hope I get there. In the meantime, I am having fun. I really love the process of quilting, and I focus more on that than the finishing. It's why I have so many WIPs, but it's also why quilting is so relaxing for me. I don't force myself to do something I don't want to do very often. I just set things aside and wait until I'm ready to go back to them. My WIPs are a little overwhelming to me sometimes, but mostly they're not. Maybe I'm loathe to finish them BECAUSE I enjoy the process so much. I don't want it to be over. Or maybe I just get distracted by new things too easily. That's probably the more likely explanation. ;)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Dana will be so proud!

For those of you who are familiar with Old Red Barn Co (and really, who isn't?), you will recognize this quilt from Dana's very first quilt-along. And it's finally done. It's on my 2011 UFO Challenge list, but not for this month necessarily. (I'm supposed to do #10, but I got on a binding kick, and now it's done. I'm ahead!) Anyway, it is now washed and crinkly and on my girls' bed. Just in time too, because we've been having very cold (for us) nights (and days) around here.
The blocks are 12" square, so the finished quilt is 72" x 84". It's a mix of mostly Tickled Pink by Robyn Pandolph and Provincial Garden by -- hmm . . . I don't know.