Two more successes from the Patchwork Gilde Deutschland‘s annual UFO Challenge before I failed the last month. These were pretty easy, small pieces that only needed quilting and binding.
January
Log cabin pinwheel (2.5″ blocks) with a compound mitered border, top completed in 2022 (is that even old enough to be a UFO?). I had no idea how to quilt it–and I still don’t. I settled for ditch-quilting in matching colors. Feels lazy, but also feels FINISHED, and in time to use for Christmas 2025!
“That looks familiar, Radish.” Yes, you’ve seen this horror in the weekly photo post:
February
I started this table-runner top at a workshop with Terry Atkinson in 1999, in a church basement in Rowan, Iowa. It’s called “Radish Roses” (appealed to me, for some reason), and you can still buy the pattern, which is suitable for beginners.
In my defense: when I got home from the class, I made one in different colors for my sister, which I finished before Christmas, and a third one in still other colors, which I gave to my mother. Then I was mentally finished with this pattern. It could happen to you, too.
While I know I managed to quilt two of these, I don’t remember how, and while I’ve done free-motion-quilting with my current machine, I have also forgotten how. Simple straight lines, it is!
The dark green fabric wasn’t normal quilting cotton, it was chintz–thin and papery, and coated with some sort of slick chemical. I want to go back in time and kick my own ass for choosing this fabric.
March
I haven’t finished it yet, but here’s what I started out with:
I’ll keep you posted.
