I finished it... in 2013!!! Sometime mid day yesterday. It's hard to know when to quit with embellishments, isn't it, but I finally said "enough"; time to move on! It was supposed to be for my sister-in-law for Christmas, but her birthday is in a couple of weeks so, as it turns out, I'm early! Sorry for my marginal photography skills.

Marti, please let me know the next time you pass my way! I am in Acworth, near Marietta. Are you going to the Ricky Tims Superseminar in a few weeks?

Michelle - I'm in Chattanooga. I have daughter in Atlanta. We were at Tiny Stitches last week. We bought our Gammill from Pat at Calico Cottage.

Thank you Renata! I'll post them in my profile since up close is the glory of this piece.

Just to let you all know, the distraction of inspiration has started already with the new show on today. I want to draw feathers with my initials

Marti, go for it! Move into that room and make it your own!! You deserve it!!

And how cool that your DH has the longarm!!

Where in TN are you?

I will be working on the hand applique border of my HST exchange quilt, my guild's mystery quilt, and a bed quilt for my youngest daughter's best friend. Then there is lots of binding to be sewn onto place mats I make with scraps. On the side, I have decided to add some more hand quilting on a lap top I finished last year.
Jeanine

suehenyon wrote:
Susan, your quilting is so beautiful! Will you show us the rest of it when you're ready? Happy New Year!

Michelle, when you're done, you can drive on up to Tennessee and help with mine. My husband suggested I move my sewing corner into one of the spare bedrooms. This will give me room for my design wall, ironing area, more cutting room and a place to set my second machine up. Now to figure out what, where and when.

The longarm studio (his) was completed a couple of years ago. That has definitely cut down on my UFOs.

Susan, your quilting look so good.

I realized yesterday that the first thing I'm going to finish is my FMQ practicing quilt. I only have the border to finish but in some way that quilt did not count as a project. Well, it is and I'm going to work on it when I'm finished at the computer.

Susan your quilting is amazing, you are right to be proud

ajclapp wrote:
Wow, can I sympathize with this sentiment!

I'll probably finish my personal bird quilt first, a block of which is attached. This was my quilt to practice FMQ in 2012 and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, back-aches and all. 4 by 3 blocks, quilt as you go ala the Bernina Bite-sized Quilting video, sashing is done. All it needs (or is getting) is a sleeve for hanging and some binding. Does writing this mean commitment?

I'd like to get something done with two partially completed BOM's, probably turn into wall-hangings, and hope to complete this year's all the way to the end.

I'm organizing a group at church to work on a Hobo Quilt (Debra Henninger) to raffle at our Fall Festival Ham & Oyster dinner. I had an uncle who was a hobo for awhile during the Depression. This book and quilt caught my heart with it's primary source documentation.

That's enough, I think. I know I'll get distracted with yet another technique to practice.

ajclapp wrote:
Wow, that sounds wonderful! If you're anything like a couple of my friends who have longarms, once they got their feet wet, they started quilting all their UFO's and then went looking for other things to quilt!

Congratulations, hope it's not too long to wait before you can get it put together
kathy

I'll be finishing a few Christmas projects that just didn't get done : a crazy quilt wall hanging a'la Brian Haggard for my sister-in-law; and fabric books for 4 little ones. Then on to the completion of my granddaughter's quilt for her 7th birthday in April--I have a tailwind on that one. I have several other WIPs to finish, but if I concentrate and don't start anything new I could have them done in a month...what are the chances? And I haven't even started on Laura V's embellishment project.

twiglet wrote:
You're absolutely right! If it weren't for all of those videos of ideas and the yearly BOM's I wouldn't have started so many projects. And the abundance of quilting magazines, patterns, and books give me way too many ideas too. My wish would be to try every technique, but for now that is not realistic. I really need to hibernate for a year away from all of this inspiration so I can get things finished. If I were to make a New Year's resolution, it would be to work on only one project at a time until it is complete before starting the next. I doubt that will ever happen so I won't be making any resolutions this year.