Today was the QOV New Year's Day Sit & Sew, where the goal was to devote a day of sewing to making a quilt for a service member. I made some pretty good progress, given some unexpected (and EARLY!) company this morning and the fact that we're all fighting a pretty nasty cold! I bought fabric for this project in the early summer, and it has lived in the plastic bag I brought it home in ever since. It's listed as one of my 2013 UFO's, even though technically it's a New-FO. This pattern goes together pretty quickly, once you've pressed and squared all the HST's (half-square triangles.) I like this pattern so much I've actually purchased fabric to make it in several different styles! I can think of four more just off the top of my head, that's a little embarrassing!
I didn't get the cutting done ahead of schedule like I'd planned so I could devote the entire day to sewing; my work schedule has been pretty full with the holidays. This portion has a sawtooth border of another 40 HST's, and I'm still in the process of squaring those blocks up. I've never done a QOV before, so I'm not sure what they expect for the quilting portion. I think I'll send this to a volunteer long armer instead of doing it on my own, I want to make sure my idea of "quilting" is acceptable!
In other news, our hostess drew #5 as the random number for the 2013 UFO's, so this month I will be quilting and binding my Koi Quilt! When I was cleaning my sewing room and gathering all the UFO's in my stash, I kept looking at this one and hoping it would be chosen soon! It's getting mighty cold out there and it will be nice to snuggle under while watching movies. Of course, this means I need to unearth my quilting frame in the basement first, and that means I REALLY need to get the baby clothes taken care of! Good thing that's already on my Get It Done list for the month!
Happy Sewing!
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