I started taking pictures of all my quilt tops I have ready to quilt. I will start posting them. This first picture is of 4 Saturday Sampler quilts I have pieced. 3 of them are from Quilt Sampler and the red, black and white is from Merrily We Quilt Along. The idea of the Saturday Sampler is that you come in to the Quilt Shop on the designated Saturday, such as the 1st Saturday. You buy a quilt block for $5. They give you the pattern and fabric to make the block. You make the block within the next month, bring your block back the following month and you get a free block that month. If you don't miss any months, you can make 12 blocks for a quilt for $5. If you miss a month, you just go in anytime after that Saturday and buy a block for $5. I have never made it to every month's Saturday. I have always had to buy a block. This does not include the sashing, borders, backing, and binding. Those you have to purchase seperately.


The Butterfly Quilt on the far left is from a block swap I did several years ago over the internet. The yellow 9-patch is a lap size quilt I made to teach a kid's quilting class. The blue one is the first blocks I got from 1st Saturday Sampler. I just started going to Quilt Sampler and didn't know about 1st Saturday Sampler. They had some extra blocks and I could only get 5 blocks that year. The next year was when I started going regularly. The green one is made from a Charm Pack and I made this one for a program at my local quilt guild.

This picture is of a Log Cabin I did from strips of fabric the ladies at church gave me. I need to add borders and get it back to them for them to quilt.

The second one is a 1st Saturday Sampler Christmas quilt. I decided I needed to add an outside border once I looked at it again.

The third quilt is a quilt I did from Fat Quarters I bought when I did a Shop Hop.

The red and green is Jenny Beyer's Mirage quilt. It is Mom's quilt I made for her one Christmas. It is still not quilted.

Then the blue is Jenny Beyer's Moonglow quilt. It belongs to my son, Joey. Also, still not quilted.

There are three pictures. I will post more later. I have a lot of quilting to do, don't you think? I told my husband I didn't know whether to get busy and get some quilted before piecing any more or keep saving them and see if I could get to 100 by the time I retire in 6 years. I have over 50 now.

January 2010

I can't believe it has been so long since I posted to my Blog! I can't believe it is already 2010! Where did the year go? I guess the older I get, the faster the years go.
I keep track of the quilts I complete each year and a list of my UFO's. My UFO's are out of control! But, anyway, that is the story of a quilter with a full time job. My list of finished quilts reached 17 in the year 2009! I am pleased with that number. Unfortunately, most of those were projects I started during the year. There were about 5 or 6 that had been started before 2009. I guess that is not so bad. My list of quilts that are ready to quilt is at 27. I have about 5 that need borders and then they are ready to quilt. I still have a lot of Blocks in Progress.
So, to start the New Year, I have set my goal this year to 24 quilts during 2010. That is a lot, but I have to set my goal high to knock down on these UFO's. I would like at least half of those to be UFO's and not new projects.
I have been going to a Quilt shop in Springfield for several year for their First Saturday Sampler Quilt. I think I started in 2002. The only ones I have finished are the ones I did 2 of and gave one for Christmas, which isn't very many. I would like to get all of those quilted. I had wanted to get them done last year, but didn't do it. Starting in 2002 and still doing it, I have 10 quilts to quilt. In 2008, I did 2 quilts. The borders are still not on those, but the others, including 2009's, are ready to quilt. I got out all my quilts I had packed downstairs in my quilting room and took pictures of them. Maybe with a visual I will get them done. Some are small quilts and wouldn't take very long to do. I did put an old one on my quilting machine Thursday. It is one from JoAnn's. It was a Christmas Quilt Block of the Month. It was probably 12-13 years ago. Does anyone remember that one? I will try to post pictures soon.
Well, Happy New Year to everyone!