{"id":4940,"date":"2025-04-03T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:43:23","slug":"patchwork-gilde-ufos-january-and-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/patchwork-gilde-ufos-january-and-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork Gilde UFOs: January and February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two more successes from the Patchwork Gilde Deutschland<\/a>‘s\u00a0annual UFO Challenge<\/a> before I failed the last month. These were pretty easy, small pieces that only needed quilting and binding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

January<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Last August, this seemed insurmountable.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Log cabin pinwheel (2.5″ blocks) with a compound mitered border, top completed in 2022 (is that even old enough to be a UFO<\/a>?). 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small bear for scale.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“That looks familiar, Radish.” Yes, you’ve seen this horror in the weekly photo post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sigh.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

February<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I started this table-runner top at a workshop with Terry Atkinson<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been like this for 25 years, why change now?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

March<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t finished it yet, but here’s what I started out with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A literal shoebox of parts.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to go back in time and kick my own ass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patchwork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t