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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 18:50 #88689

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I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with for this challenge. I've always been interested in architecture. But as with many of the rest of you, there are way too many projects on my to finish list first and there's no way I can add a new one right now. But if I were to do it I would base it on the Klopp Castle which may be a part of our family history, on my DH's side of course. And I might use the mosaic picture piecing technique. Since it's not going to happen, anytime soon anyway, here is a picture of what it could be.

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 18:42 #88688

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I have enough UFOs, PHDs, and WIPs to keep all of you busy, along with me, for several years. Weirdly, I still love them all. I rarely stop work because I've gotten sick of something, but rather tend to get side-tracked with something else. The quilts that I generally finish are the ones with some sort of deadline, mostly gifts. But I do get some done for myself every once in a while!

I did put all of my projects in a list a year or so ago. This helps me when packing for a quilt retreat or even for a sew day at someone else's house. And I get a weird joy just reading through and thinking about my projects.

Nancy

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 15:00 #88685

crocus999 OFFLINE Posts: 1909 Thank you received: 149	What I've found, doing the Laura Nownes sampler, is that it's good to intermingle a smallish project in with the larger ones. I have lots of UFO's but almost finished the sampler, which is motivating because something is finished, while I know there is still lots to work on. I think that 'mulling' is very much a part of the process.
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 14:10 #88682

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This is what I think about my list, my PHD's, and my UFO's. If they are really important they will get done. If they don't get done it's because something more important needed to get done. Sometimes I've learn something I needed to know before I was able to finish a project and so it sat for a while. After I've learned that new thing enthusiasm for that old project returns and I go gang busters and it gets done in no time. I know it will never be a hard and fast rule for me that I need to finish one project before I start the next. I do implement that rule in a softer form from time to time. It's always good to feel the satisfaction of finishing something and so I sometime just make myself do it.

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 13:36 #88678

Reetzbobeetz OFFLINE Posts: 4193 Thank you received: 209	That's the spirit Limbania, I feel the same way myself.
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 13:28 #88677

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Not a list here either but a head full of ideas. Without taking into consideration the "few" BOM

, 3 quilts already designed and fabric bought

, a "couple" of PHD (projects half done)

I hope I can have a looooooooong life to finish them all. Then I come to the forum and voilà, more ideas, new projects getting started :shock: :shock: :shock: Hey, not complaining at all

just one of those "pondering moments"

will I ever... Who cares? I'm certainly having fun and enjoying my quilting life and getting to know you all

From México, living in sunny Arizona.

"Let your smile change the world... but don't let the world change your smile"

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 13:00 #88676

Reetzbobeetz OFFLINE Posts: 4193 Thank you received: 209	I wish I could be organized enough to have a list. Mine are all just ideas in my head and I keep flitting from one to another. It is always so much more interesting to start a new project than to finish the not so interesting aspect of a UFO.
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 12:19 #88672

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Just came across it this morning - 5 meters of white with little blue polka dots. Wonder why I bought that? So, I just stuck it in the wash and I decided that I'll use it for our guild's mystery quilt. (only need 3 meters for the mystery, so will have 2 left!) My list is ever expanding. At one point I wrote the ideas down and got up to 19. Then I stopped. This architectural quilt and the mystery with polka dots were never even near that list!

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 11:35 #88670

Learning-As-I-Go OFFLINE Posts: 553 Thank you received: 79	well, probably that is true, too of course. Although, whereas before I thought maybe I could finish a quilt per year, I do think I can get through them a little bit faster now. But you are very right, more ideas keep finding their way onto the list......this is going to be so much fun!
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 08:39 #88665

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Learning-As-I-Go wrote:

Limbania55 wrote:

That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie

Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces.

Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future

LOL, "evil wink" is the perfect pair of smilies there Limbania! My "some day" list is already long, though now that I'm using a machine I'm realizing maybe it's not as long as I feared.....perhaps there will be room some day for a quilt of that design.

Don't you believe it, that list is going to keep on growing faster than you realise

Embroideress Extrordinaire & Mad Hatter

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 15 Sep 2012 05:56 #88661

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Limbania55 wrote:

That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie

Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces.

Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future

LOL, "evil wink" is the perfect pair of smilies there Limbania! My "some day" list is already long, though now that I'm using a machine I'm realizing maybe it's not as long as I feared.....perhaps there will be room some day for a quilt of that design.

Heather, a Texan living in Brasil

http://quiltingonawhim.blogspot.com.br/

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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 14 Sep 2012 19:42 #88639

Limbania55 OFFLINE Posts: 673 Thank you received: 7	That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces. Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 14 Sep 2012 18:40 #88632

crocus999 OFFLINE Posts: 1909 Thank you received: 149	Rosemary, you're right. Now she gets the kids to help while he's out working. BTW, we have a little town near here, across the border in Ontario that is called the gingerbread house capital of Canada. All their houses are cute and quaint and lots of gables and dormer windows etc. Lois's house would fit in there nicely.
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Re: Architectural Quilt Challenge 14 Sep 2012 15:30 #88612

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crocus999 wrote:

I was in Switzerland a few years ago, and took loads and loads of pictures of architectural things. Doors, windows, fences,winding staircases, a sea of roof tops, lots and lots of geometric, and in my mind, artistic shots. Then, near the end of my visit, my memory card got full (yes, I've learned my lesson), and in order to take other needed pictures, I had to delete all the artsy-fartsy pictures. So, I'll just have to try to juggle my memory. ( or go back to Switzerland..)
Or I could just do a gingerbread house and use lots of large white rick-rack.

BTW I have a funny story of an engineer (my son) and an artist/chef (my soon-to-be DIL) making a gingerbread house when they were just getting to know one another. There was a protractor vs a spatula mini-war! Then are now still married since 10 years.

I bet they don't make gingerbread houses together any more either

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