No, this isn't going to be about UFO's ~ unidentified flying objects!!! But about quilty unfinished objects. Most of these projects, and this doesn't represent all of them, have been around for years. Maybe this is THE YEAR to get them FINISHED.

First up is a Friendship Star 6" block swap that I participated in with the girls on the Wrap Them In Love Yahoo group, um, back in 2004. So it's not that old....just aged a bit. I don't know how many blocks I have, but a simple and easy setting is definitely a requirement for this one to be finished.

This one is more recent as it was started in mid 2007. On the Stashbusters Yahoo Group, a lady was asking for volunteers to test a quilt pattern. Um, sounds interesting to me so I put my name into the hat. Well, it was a great experience for me. I had all the intention of making a king sized quilt for our king sized bed. And trust me I have more than enough bits of scraps to make a king sized quilt and pillowcases, and, and, and....well you get the point. This is the middle section of the quilt and this is as far as I've gotten. I had thought of making it into a doll quilt for my niece for this past Christmas, but went with a Barbie instead. I think a simple doll quilt would be a good finish for this. As for the rest of those 2.5" squares I've already cut, well, I am sure they can be made into something, sometime. The name of the pattern is Grandma Cora's Quilt.

Okay, this one is just pathetic. I think the first New Year's we were in our current house, back in 2006, I really wanted to make something that day. Well I cut up fabric into 6.5" squares and attempted to make a flower type of quilt using the flower fabric as the center portion. Um, you can see how far I've gotten with that. I was simply impossible. So right now I'm not sure what I'll do with this mess I've started. Maybe I'll picked up some other fabric, unless I have something in my stash, and make big 4-patches out of it. I'm honestly not sure this one will ever get made into a quilt of any kind. Um, maybe Dixie Grits, the dog would like it when I'm finished.

This is from a class I took for the Bethany Reynolds Stack -n- Whack quilt technique. I bought the fish fabric when hubby and I were in Charleston. Note this was started before kids, so that would have been before mid 2000. Um, quite a while that this one has "aged". I apologize for the quality of this picture. It was taken at night and my craft room just doesn't has the best lighting. The setting triangles are yellow, almost a marbled effect. The center block is a swirl orange cream soda color fabric. It's very pretty, but I didn't have enough of it to do a border. So years later, a few quilt guild friends and I went to Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC.  It was at Mary Jo's that I finally found the orange cream soda color fabric and yes, I did a happy dance right there at Mary Jo's. If you are within 5 hours driving time of Mary Jo's, you HAVE to go. Imagine a super Wal-Mart sized store FULL OF FABRIC and notions. My heart is in palpatations just thinking of it. Um, sounds like a birthday present for me -- hint hint hubby!!!!   In order to finish this, I am ripping off the fish border that I had originally put on, then I'll add the orange fabric, then the fish border again. The green fabric is not good quality, nor do I have enough of it to do another border. Finishing this one shouldn't be too difficult.

This is a Double Wedding Ring (DWR) quilt that was started before kids, so it's aged a bit too. Again this was a class that was taught at the local quilt store. The difference in this DWR quilt is you sew strips, then using a template, you cut out the rings. It definitely is easy to do it this way. Of course learning to sew the curves was a challenge. I can't say that I'm good at it, but only the quilting is left to do on this one. It will be a challenge doing the binding ont his one as part of the curve of the rings are the outer edge. I am not sure that I have much left of the pink fabrics, but I do know I have a ton of the periwinkle main fabric. I really like this quilt and would really like to have it finished soon.

It's probably really difficult to tell, but this quilt is made up of Africian animal themed blocks. I had originally thought this would be Caleb's baby blanket. It might have been if I had used a much thinner and less stiff heat -n- bond type of product to fuse the blocks to the sky fabric. The border is a cool leaf fabric. So all that is really needed for this one to be finished is the batting, the backing and probably a black binding. I think for the quilting I'll just do swirls or maybe swirly clouds. The blocks themselves have already been sewn down with a buttonhole stitch. So hopefully this one can be done quickly.

I've got the Joy, Joy, Joy, um, well, I've had the JOY banner around for a loooong time. I think this was goes back to 1999. Gasp and I've still haven't been able to actually enjoy it for Christmas. I can't remember the magazine I found this pattern in. The problem and I know you can't tell from this poor quality picture, is I used gold thread (don't ever do this) to do the buttonhole stitch around the JOY. Um, won't ever do this again. And because I used a stiff fusible on the back, it's beyond difficult if not impossible to rip out the stitches. I've ripped out some, but I don't think I'm going to be able to get them all out. So right now I am at a stand still on how to finish the buttonhole around the letters. Suggestions anyone? Once the letters are done, and probably the leaves too, then it's a matter of deciding whether to do any quilting on the white background, and add the binding. So I have a bit more than 300 days left to finish this one. Can I do it? Yes, I can!!

This was a "Row Robin" that I did with a quilt guild I use to be in. A Row Robin simply means that everyone does a row and sends it to the next person. I didn't have a theme in mind when I made the pinwheel blocks (the row above the trains at the bottom). I did use a cream colored Gingerbread themed fabric and then thebrown fabric has little hearts.  It was again at Mary Jo's that I found a good quality black fabric. So I think in order to finish this quilt, I need to figure out if the black will be the first border or that pinky purple fabric in the next picture. The final border will be the batik. I'll probably bind the quilt in black. One thing I have learned that hard way, when it comes to black fabric, don't skimp. Pay the money and get the best quality available. So buying black fabric from Wal-Mart wouldn't be a good choice. Here's another picture showing the quilt up close.

The amount of work these ladies did for this quilt is simply awesome. There are police cars, boats, trains, ballons. Maybe one day this quilt can be finished too.

And this is probably the oldest (if my memory is correct) UFO I have. It's a two-color Delectable Mountain quilt. The original pattern had a Sawtooth border, but I had already had my fill of making half-square triangles, so I went the easy way and did a stirp border. And just like a lot of my other quilts, the border is "wavy". So I'm ripping off the border and hoping to making it better the second time around. I have a ton of the blue flower fabric, but I don't think I have any significant amount of the white left. By the way this was started in either 1998 or 1999.

Well that concludes part 1 of the UFO Project List. I know there are at least 2+ UFO's that I haven't unearthed yet in the craft room. When I do, I'll share pictures of them. Of course once I find the rotary cutter that I really like and make sure it has a new blade, then I can really begin tackling these quilts.  As always, thanks for looking!!