GET READY FOR....THE 2017 UFO CHALLENGE!!!

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GET READY FOR....THE 2017 UFO CHALLENGE!!!

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1avaland
jan 7, 2017, 12:22 pm

We've all got them. They lurk nearly forgotten on our shelves or in our closets; they cower neglected in our bins. They have not seen the light of day for untold weeks, months, years...even decades. Some of them might even be truly dated at this point. They are our ...UNFINISHED OBJECTS.



For the 2017 UFO CHALLENGE:

1. Pick one of your UFO's that has been sitting around gathering dust for at least for two years.
2. Commit to finish it this year (even if you have to donate it)
3. Post your choice of UFO to finish here.
4. Post the finished project.

The rest of us will provide support and group therapy for any embarrassment, shame, neglect or disorganization we need to confess. LOL.

2dudes22
jan 7, 2017, 12:40 pm

Two years...Hmmmm....which one to choose.

3mabith
jan 7, 2017, 1:05 pm

I thought "Oh no, I'll have to work on that horrible photo cross stitch project," but then I remembered a different UFO, a second stitching of an old cross-stitch piece that just needs the background finished. I learned I hate stitching the same thing twice but I should finish it.

4scaifea
jan 7, 2017, 1:08 pm

Oooh, I love it! I'll have a rummage round and see what I can come up with (talk about an *embarrassment* of riches...).

5Lyndatrue
Redigeret: jan 7, 2017, 2:54 pm

Okay, you've inspired me. Perhaps guilt will work; nothing else has. I have been meaning to "get back to" this for at least two years.



I last made that pattern up in 1975 or perhaps as late as 1977. The pattern doesn't have a copyright date on it, but that's the approximate time frame. I loved it once it was finished, and after 40 years, rediscovered the pattern in my pattern drawer. Gee (I said foolishly), why haven't I ever made this again? Once I got half way through it, I was reminded of *why*. The instructions for the center inset are easily the most confusing I've ever seen. I believe that I finally gave up the first time, and just pieced it in.

This time, I just set it aside, and (because I'm so deeply compulsive) I don't seem to be able to move on, and do something else. Therefore, I promise here, in front of everyone, to finish it, and then attempt a photograph of me, in it.

6lesmel
jan 7, 2017, 3:17 pm

Oh good lord. You are gonna *make* me actually work on my scrap quilt. Oh the horror! Hmm. Maybe I can convert the project into blankets for the furkids.

7thornton37814
jan 7, 2017, 6:12 pm

I'll have to track it down so I can post the photo.

8scaifea
jan 8, 2017, 11:05 am

>5 Lyndatrue: Oh, man, Butterick pulls that kind of stuff sometimes - instructions that make your eyes cross. I'll be forever grateful to my mom for teaching me easier ways of doing stuff that is generally way over-complicated in pattern instructions. Best of luck, and I'm excited to see the finished product!

9SassyLassy
jan 8, 2017, 11:45 am

Love this idea, particularly because on Thursday (January 5th) I just finished a Christmas UFO that had seen four Christmases and it inspired me to do more on these things. I have another Christmas related one I am currently at work on. For some reason I only work on seasonal projects the week before whatever event it may be, don't get it finished, then put it away until the next year in the ridiculous childlike belief that I will finish it then. After awhile it gets too discouraging.

>5 Lyndatrue: Love that Butterick pattern. There are so many possibilities.

10dudes22
jan 8, 2017, 12:20 pm

>9 SassyLassy: - I read The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini last month and part of the story was about a quilt that multiple generations had worked on only at the holidays. I was making a table topper last year using an envelope method (like you'd do for a pillow). It went on the table last year not quilted and the back held together by pins. I managed to hand sew the back but it's still not quilted and it went back on the table again this year.

11avaland
jan 9, 2017, 2:13 pm

I knew you all would rise to the occasion!! We expect before and after pictures, tales of woe and hand-wringing (good start on that, ladies), and subsequent tales of triumph and celebration.

>3 mabith: Now, of course, we all want to see the "horrible" cross stitch project....

>4 scaifea: Everyone needs a good "rummage around" sometimes.

>5 Lyndatrue: Ooooo, Lynda, thank the sewing gods that there are others with "pattern drawers" which contains patterns going back decades! if only I could still fit into my patterns from the late 60s and 1970s!!! The last time I used one of them was to make a pair of very low slung, wide bell, hip-hugger bellbottoms for my oldest daughter to use for Halloween one year (it then was probably 20 years after the last time I used the pattern).

>6 lesmel: Can't resist a challenge, I see....

>7 thornton37814: Just the one then?

>9 SassyLassy: That sounds promising!

>10 dudes22: Just think! You can reassess all your UFOs as you unpack them!

As for me, I think I know which quilt I will finish. In the past I have had days where—on a whim—I've put together half a lap quilt or so. I think it mostly comes out of some need to construct something, or to use up some leftovers because they usually are very mediocre projects...which is why I'm not inclined to return to them. However, there is one...

12lesmel
jan 9, 2017, 2:28 pm

>11 avaland:, >5 Lyndatrue: HA! Pattern drawers. If I can remember I'll take a pic of my drawer crammed with patterns. Also, I took a bunch of patterns from my grandmother's house (she was like a size 00...and I am not) for framing and hanging.

I guess I could work on the friendship star quilt that I was making in college. It was supposed to be signed and embroidered. That never happened. And I only stay in mostly close contact with one friend from college (undergrad). I think I need a new center block for it. Hrm.

13scaifea
jan 13, 2017, 3:08 pm

Alright, here's the UFO I've decided on for the challenge (*gulp*):

I started this pattern for a fractal bookmark - wait for it - SEVEN years ago:



And here's how much I've accomplished in those seven years:



Yeah. And the worst part is, it was intended as a gift. Yeesh.

14avaland
jan 15, 2017, 11:40 am

>13 scaifea: That's an awesome bookmark. Really. Now you can finish it for yourself, eh? And seven years, pah! I have you beat. Will post shortly...

15avaland
Redigeret: jan 18, 2017, 6:47 pm

OK, I've decided. It's worse than I remember, er, the fact that this UFO is from 2007. So, I was making this as a large rectangular wall hanging for a common room where my daughter was a house mother (private boarding school in Lake Placid). I no sooner got it started and she decided it was time to move on. This is an early photo before I sewed any of the blocks together. Needless to say, I set it aside.



I pulled it out again in 2011. I had put together some of the blocks and thought I might be able to enlarge it to a lap size quilt. I was wise enough to keep some of the fabrics (those are early batiks) but still needed to add more and they didn't look quite as good in my opinion. I had used cardboard templates which deteriorated with use and that made things a challenge, and eventually I shelved the project again.

Here it is in 2011. Some of it is together and I've folded it so as to just work on one side. I was not happy with it. (sorry, the photo is sideways, I think)



Time to take it out again and see what can be done (I'm wondering if I still have the templates).

So, Amber, Lynda & I have made our declarations, where are the rest of you?... photos, please!

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