No Pictures!

I took pictures of Boxy Stars that is in progress.  I took a picture of Crayon Box that just needs the binding tacked down to be complete.  I took a picture of my version of Paducah Nine Patch from the Nickel Quilts book.
I can NOT find the NEW camera cord to transfer photos from the camera to the computer.  Maybe if I work on the binding for awhile, it will come to me. . .

Winding Roads

I remember looking at the Winding Roads quilt pattern in the Sept/Oct 2009 Quiltmaker magazine.  I quickly dismissed it as way too complicated for me. So the magazine went into the pile, in a cabinet, out of sight, out of mind.
However, since then, I have seen a photo of my Canadian friend, Lorraine's quilt.  I WANT TO MAKE ONE!!! She's made several.  I went searching for my copy of the magazine and located it quickly in the pile.  I looked at cutting directions and have determined I could quickly dive into my 2 1/2 square bucket (thanks to Bonnie Hunter's Scrap User's System-head over to quiltville.com to find that info) and the 2 1/2 inch strip bucket with the companion angle to make the HSTs in a hurry.
But this is the UFO year, and my list is ridiculously long, so I am not starting another quilt.  I am holding the Winding Roads out as an incentive, I am getting FIVE quilts finished before I start Winding Roads as a Leader & Ender project. (quiltville.com has that also!)
Guess who will be quilting while basketball is on the TV?

I spent Spring Break at the SQUEELS (Scrapbookers Quilters Unlimited Eating Eating Laughing Society) sewfest. Two and a half days of good food, good friends, some laughter, some tears, and a finished quilt top, back, and binding.  The unusual twist for the quilt is that I went home on Saturday, cleaned the sewing area, unloaded the retreat supplies and collapsed into bed.  On Sunday, I actually ran the top through the longarm machine.  It now has its binding on it and is just waiting for me to have some time to tack it down.
I also have a customer quilt ready to just tack the binding down on as well.  I have a church meeting Wednesday night after a day of waiting in doctor's offices, so maybe both bindings will get done.  That would be two projects off the UFO list!

UFOs abound!

This fall UFOs keep popping up.  I'd like to think that alien beings will just drop into my quilt room and finish them, but sadly, that hasn't happened yet.  I am not sure what it is about the starting that just calls to me. Is it the new fabric? A new method of creating an old block? I am not sure.
The current count is 56. That number seems HUGE, but then I subtract the 20 plus tops that just need quilted and 36 doesn't seem so big. Except I have a longarm machine, so it falls on me to quilt them, so then I have to go back up to 56.
I think I will  have to prioritize, determine which ones could be finished relatively quickly and move on from there.  That will be my goal for the fall retreat. . .to determine which projects could become quilts in the least amount of time and maybe even get some quilting done.  I could have a binding retreat and just tack binding down. . .NO WAY! I will sew, sew, sew and work to finish, finish, finish!