UFOs No More! Quilting in the Last Days of 2017

Appliqué Sampler

Before I started to do paper piecing I taught a variety of classes at a quilt shop in Bozeman, Montana call The Patchworks. This is the appliqué class that I taught using Eleanor Burns' book Appliqué in a Day. Awhile back I was re-arranging my fabric closet and came across this quilt. I had all the blocks finished and half of the quilt put together. We moved to Colorado and I had never got around to finishing the quilt. My "quilting" goal in life is to finish an unfinished project after I complete a major project like a book. I finishing putting the quilt together and gave it to my friend Susan Bateman to quilt it. She finished quilting it a few months ago....I just finally got around to putting on the binding. It feels so good to finish a project that I probably started about 22 years ago.

Memory Plates

While I was living in Bozeman, I was a member of a quilt guild. Every month one of the members was selected and the other members would make them a block of their choice. When it was my turn I selected the Dresden Plate.

This is another one of the quilts that I came across when re-arranging my fabric closets. I had received the blocks but just never did get them put together in a quilt. Some of the members had signed the blocks. I had such a wonderful time putting the quilt together and remembering the ladies that had taken time to make a block for me. I know that some of the ladies have since passed away. My one regret is that I didn't put this quilt together years ago. How old does a quilt need to be before it is considered an antique?? These blocks could be about 40 years old....dang, I have been quilting a long time.....does that mean I am an antique?