3 Xmas tula blocks would be gorgeous table runner. Might not even need sashing. Just sew together and small border, maybe the grey and plaid binding. So pretty!
That's what I was thinking also, but I would use that deep red/burgundy fabric as sashing and inner border. It would allow for a printed outer border to frame the piece.
I agree with sewing them stacked, but they could also become a small quilt if you add several borders. The project you don't like?? Cut it loose and put your energy into something you like.
Zebra quilt -add back, bind, it’s incredible and a baby would love it. It seems if I go off of a plan or a pattern, or even try to gather my own scraps, to create something freestyle, I get muddled and frustrated. I’m glad you showed us your projects.
Love the fat zebra skin border, keep it & quilt that sucker as is! Also agree that the quilt you inherited with the big Kaffe orange squares will be fun and easy finish since you have a plan for it, and the colors are cheerful for this time of year. These seem to be 2 projects that are close to finished so maybe start with them? I agree that a piano key border would look nice on the top with stars/blossoms(?) & green border, think about making a long strip set and cutting down to the width you want to make it faster. With the sorta starburst top you made with the Ruby Star layer cakes, maybe make more blocks? so you could have a 3x3 block quilt & use the black & white prints for sashing. And I love Darlene M. too! What about using a black or dark grey sashing to bring those blocks together? Good luck with your UFO’s, I know you’ll come up with interesting ideas! Oh, and definitely bring the national parks thing to your guild-believe it or not, there are people out there that love working with small fiddly things!
Hello, first time watcher here. You have some lovely quilts and I would love to see the final results. Please, Please finish them! They are too beautiful to sit in boxes. I subscribed just so I could see them done.
Love the pioneer sampler. You have some really beautiful projects that you’re working on. Thank you for sharing what you’re working and I look forward to see them completed.
Nora please don't abandon your National Parks project! It's gorgeous! I would treat the remaining 5 blocks as a block of the month or every 2 months kind of project to get it done, that would be so satisfying when you finish it. I love your ideas and you're channel❤️
I agree, I make a couple of quilt tops each year, by breaking a pattern into 12 months. You actually look forward to it, because you don’t have to do more than one block.
I agree also. Keep on keeping on with this potentially fantastic quilt. It looks like you are making the pieced border the hard way. Are you not strip piecing, then cutting into diamonds similar to how a lonestar quilt is made?
Wow all the astronaut is a lot of blocks, go for it, make a small quilt. Can’t wait to see some of them done especially this one. I love the wide zebra border. Happy sewing.
Alot of very nice pieces! I really like the "dresden" great color, I'd leave that center open. The mariners compass blocks are gorgeous! Love the big zebra border - beautiful piece! I would just add a larger black or charcoal border for a lap quilt or throw. I have also experienced "quilt guilt" 😂 but sometimes you just have to pass it on. Someone will be thrilled to get it. It's really so freeing! I too lost the no UFO battle. 😊 Love your videos!
OMG! I can relate to this so much! I have such a problem with staying on task. Darn pinterest and youtube continue to provide me with inspiration and then I stray. 😂
Sooo many pretty projects! I love the vintage-looking pink quilt that’s 5x5! It’s looking ready to go!! Maybe a fun contrasting binding? What a sweet quilt ❤️💕🧵🪡✂️
I love your national park quilt…might be my fav. What about introducing some cool solids…like cherry wood. Bite the bullet and finish a couple of the ones you started but mix in solid sashing in rich earth tones for ones you havent started. Good luck1 -martha
The blue and tan ones toward the end could be turned on point and made into a runner or long wall hanging. My vote is pick the top three you love and finish them. Donate the rest to a guild or quilt museum. Let someone else be excited to finish something.
Fun look at your ufo's! I love that national parks project. I hope you pass it along if you can't bring yourself to finish it. The pink monochromatic 5×5 definitely needs a little bit more. Maybe you could find a decorative stitch on your machine that could mimic the look of lace? I'm looking forward to seeing how you proceed!
Your 3 Christmas plaid stars are really cute. Depending on how big you want to make the finished project (quilt, table runner?) you could make partial stars that don't require a center block or stars with and "empty" center that just has the background fabric. I thought I had 27 UFOs (some were really just "quilt parts" - all the fabric to make a quilt but assembly required) - but I organized my stash this weekend, removed 15 projects but found more and now have 43 UFOs. 😵💫
So many beautiful projects. I love your style and the fabrics you use. What had become of the friendship quilt and the block exchange improve quilt? Greetings from Germany 😊
Many of those could be wall Hangings with 3 or so independent blocks joined by something really special like brass rings or leather or wooden beads or anything. Maybe they are actually finished and don’t want anymore except a hanging sleeve. Love your creative eye
I agree with Anna regarding the zebra fabric. I would keep the wide zebra fabric and then add a wider border. I would probably find a bright print for that border. I would not add lace or anything else to the pink baby quilt. I would want a quilt that’s easy to wash and won’t be a danger to the baby or collect dirt.
I love your Nat'l Park blocks! Rather than working with triangles, make those colorful borders Seminole-style. Sew 2 rectangles together... sew those units, offset... then trim to correct width. There will be a little waste but it's faster and more perfect. And you won't "waste" the whole project!
Make the three Tula pink squares positioned down the center of the quilt and build out from there. They are a strong draw and will hold the attention. The eye can rest outside them with whatever you choose.
National parks...use the pieced portions as sashing between the smaller blocks with the striped borders. You might have sufficient length to do that. But it may result in a COMPLETED wall hanging.
The park blocks, unpick the triangle ones use a solid strip of a color from triangle color and border then do the beige border. Then randomly place blocks that have triangles with the solid bordered blocks.
You could put your finished national parks blocks into the centre of a medallion quilt, and use the other blocks throughout one of the borders. It would be so cool.
On the blocks, we only have three I would make that into a table runner. That would be very nice and then you wouldn’t have to worry about making a fourth are trying to make it into a quilt or throw.
Xmas blocks could become 3 lovely reusable drawstring gift bags. Nat’l Parks if you can stand it, finish Grand Canyon then all the rest simply do that inner border with just one of your fabrics. Sprinkle the triangle ones throughout a throw or twin size. Otherwise let it go! Disappearing blocks could become a quilt as is. A mixture of what you’ve already completed and improv squares in that same size would look great. Maybe sashed. Great work!
LOVE the look of the National Parks blocks. My idea: Finish 5 blocks like the one you have done with the beige outer border. You have enough triangle strips to do that. On the remaining 4 blocks, remove any triangle pieces and use a square in a square border treatment. (Check out Donna Jordan from Jordan Fabrics video called "Meditation" - it's the squares in the outer border.) That looks complicated but is very easy. You can do it scrappy, using the same fabrics you have in the triangle border. For the layout, you could alternate those blocks into 3 rows of 3. It would look stunning.
The parks quilt mega pieces could be a leaders enders. Love the dresden just complete as is. Darlene blocks i was kind of picture it as a bed runner. Having them side by side. Some really nice starts there Nora. 👍🩷
on the wildlife blocks could you sew a bunch of big postage stamp like blocks with the same size squares that you are using and then cut them on the diagonal? You could even strip piece them first. I really like your plan but I can see how that would take an immense amount of time. I think you should keep going on the zebra border one and make it a twin size. That will really make someone happy.
The pale pink block baby quilt, it would be cool to buy a roll of maybe cream chenille it, basically maybe 1/4-1/2” strip that u sew on and wash and it makes a fuzzy strip like old fashioned chenille blankets. Google on UA-cam. A lot of folks r using it on edges of quilts and on words on quilts.. and a fair bit on baby quilts. Would be nice in the middle of your sashing in cream. And is definitely more washable than lace… check it out.
Are the strips for the national parks quilt something you could do for leaders and enders? Then maybe you could gradually accumulate enough finished pieces to make it a quilt and not abandon it
The Ruby Star layer cake blocks. I would purchase one of the splatter blenders from RSS, maybe the pinky peach with gold splatter and use that for sashing and a small border. Then use your extra layer cake pieces for that piano key border you were planning.
Nora - Your National Parks quilt project: Gather sewist friends for a “Picnic in the Park” sewing day, make s’mores and popcorn, bring out the denim you want to recycle and each sewist can get creative and make bags with your squares as they are…..make a party out of a problem project😁. I absolutely love your squares❤️
Piece no. 1 is close. The border choice is good. max of 6in. wide. The quilting will make this project as it usually does. Back with a white. no binding.
Quilted Forest…owner. Has a wonderful way of organizing her UFO’s, one a month/ 12 a year. First day of the month she puts 1-12 numbers in a bucket. Pulls a number, and tackles the project in the bin with that number. Before she pulls the next month’s number she shows her project progress, then pulls the next month’s number…moving the projects towards the finish line. Worth the watch.
I found it interesting to see your UFOs that look nothing like mine.The three blue and brown blocks you showed were very interesting and then you went into a basket to show us another quilt and as you rummaged through that basket, I noticed some blue and brown smaller pieced blocks. They look like they would go with the three blocks. You need to go pull all those blue and brown pieces out of that UFO basket and put it with the three blue and brown blocks. That might inspire you to work some more with them. I use much different colors and quilting styles than you, so I don't have much advice to offer you. I will say this, that one quilt that you said you weren't inspired, etc. and didn't realy want to work with it, bundle it and any extra fabric from working on it and drop it off at quilt guild or your closet thrift store. I pick up so much fabric and things from my town's thrift store that has great prices when compared to SA and GW which are too far away from me. There is no shame in giving someone else the opportunity to make something they will cherish. I'm sidelined big time due to bad arthritis, but when I could go to quilt guild, we had a woman there that I think most of the other ladies never noticed her talent. She could design incredible 12" square blocks with 40-50 pieces in it. But she definetly didn't have much when it came to money and so she used the fabric she could access. If she had access to better fabric (our thrift store wasn't open at that point) she would have been seen as so talented. Only saying this so you don't feel bad about letting projects go as they might make their way to a home that really needs them. Donating is giving a gift to other quilters. I'm working on getting baby quilts ready to sew from my personal pre-cut pieces. So far fabric for 2 quilts ready to sew, triming some other large blocks, and sorting fabric to make a new type of quilt blocks somewhat like a Chinese coin quilt. Baby quilts are pretty much my limit as I can't handle bigger ones. I just wish someone would quilt them for me, but I have to try to machine quilt them.
I would take the 3 Tula Pink Blocks and make a Holiday Table runner. For the 1 with Zebra stripes I would Put a slim Black Border and as a frame and then another wide border.
I would love to finish the national park quilt. It sounds like you suffer from the common quilters syndrome when we just get too far ahead of ourselves dreaming of our next project.
If you seam rip those bits that take forever off the blocks you haven't finished you might be able to finish one or two more with the pieces you've already made. Then you could do an alternate easy border like strips for the ones with nothing. I think there's enough of them to have it look cohesive and intentional to alternate them. If there's not enough to be even you could do 2 different kinds of borders and alternate by 3 types but I think it would look great if you used some of the fabric you used in those borders that took forever just to make strips or piano keys or something.
That National Parks project; how many blocks can you border with the bits of patched braiding you have done? Could you then do the rest with a border of a single co-ordinating print and then go from there? You’ll still have the work you put in but won’5 be daunted by all the work involved in carrying on doing the same.
Your work is really precise. The colors are lovely. If you tackle one quilt at a time then you will have a pile of gifts by Christmas 2025. How bad can that be? Also, if you are torn to the extent that you know that you won't finish any of those quilts, then you could make kits to sell on Etsy or give away to your subscribers. Does that help?
What about taking the 3 blue and brown flannel blocks and pairing them with the 3 Tula pink flannel blocks and make a quilt with all 6 blocks? The zebra quilt looks good as is. Just quilt it and bind it. Pass on the national parks quilt. Don’t force yourself to finish it. That takes the joy out of it. I know it’s hard to not see it through but I’ve had to make that decision too and I feel so much better. The green and purple quilt looks completed. Quilt and bind it too!
I know what I would do with those National Park blocks is remove all of the little triangle strips that you have completed from the blocks and do another solid border around them instead, and then use all those triangle pieces to make some kind of inner border around the whole thing so you can still use them, but don’t have to make any more. There would be a way to incorporate those in some way into the body of the quilt top. But the blocks are still cute and I would just put another solid border like a black around them to tie them all together. It really wouldn’t take long to finish it that way- you’re 90% there.
Add 3 contrasting reds on white blocks to the 3 Xmas tula blocks. The layout would be red left, white right for top & bottom rows, middle row would be white left, red right. Border in darker reds, etc.. Voila!!
Thanks for showing us your UFOs. If any bring you no joy at all, pass them on to someone who may love you. How about making runners, coasters or placemats with the blocks with the striped borders? If all else fails, you can always donate them to a charity shop. ❤👍from Somerset UK
Hi really enjoy your videos you are so talented I'm thinking of treating myself to a jelly roll ,as I usually make things with scraps what block would you suggest for a quilt project using a jellyroll?❤🎉
The national parks blocks... take the outer plain border off the one then lay them out one with pieced border, alternate with one without. Then the plain border around the whole thing. Any extra blocks on the back. Only need to complete maybe one and just take the partial piecing off the rest. Hope this helps. Otherwise, pass it on without shame.
Suggestion for three homies blocks, staggered column down centre with sampler blocks filling left and right sides. Double win because no seam matching required!
The quilt with the zebra border .... I don't know how big it is, but to me it screams teen quilt. If it needs to be bigger to do that, I think a small scrappy border (not really thin) added to the zebra and then a black outside to frame it out would look great. I really like that quilt.
Frame smaller blocks, or mae 4-patches, lay it out and see if you nesd more bits to fill in spaces. Find your original dissapearing patches first? Then see how many blocks you need?
3 Xmas tula blocks would be gorgeous table runner. Might not even need sashing. Just sew together and small border, maybe the grey and plaid binding. So pretty!
That's what I was thinking also, but I would use that deep red/burgundy fabric as sashing and inner border. It would allow for a printed outer border to frame the piece.
I agree with sewing them stacked, but they could also become a small quilt if you add several borders.
The project you don't like?? Cut it loose and put your energy into something you like.
Perfect solution!
Agree. I immediately thought about a table runner as well.
Yes! Or hot pads
Love the mariners compass circular blocks. Keep experimenting and happy quilting
Zebra quilt -add back, bind, it’s incredible and a baby would love it. It seems if I go off of a plan or a pattern, or even try to gather my own scraps, to create something freestyle, I get muddled and frustrated. I’m glad you showed us your projects.
I really love the zebra/multicolor Baby Quilt as is. The backing is so fun. I vote for finishing that one as is and checking it off!
Or make zebra smaller and add a scrap boarder to make it a quilt for a teen. I think a teen would love the colors
Love, love, love the Dresden Plate one! ⭐️🤗
Love the fat zebra skin border, keep it & quilt that sucker as is! Also agree that the quilt you inherited with the big Kaffe orange squares will be fun and easy finish since you have a plan for it, and the colors are cheerful for this time of year. These seem to be 2 projects that are close to finished so maybe start with them? I agree that a piano key border would look nice on the top with stars/blossoms(?) & green border, think about making a long strip set and cutting down to the width you want to make it faster. With the sorta starburst top you made with the Ruby Star layer cakes, maybe make more blocks? so you could have a 3x3 block quilt & use the black & white prints for sashing. And I love Darlene M. too! What about using a black or dark grey sashing to bring those blocks together? Good luck with your UFO’s, I know you’ll come up with interesting ideas! Oh, and definitely bring the national parks thing to your guild-believe it or not, there are people out there that love working with small fiddly things!
And I thought I had a problem!! Well, they all look very nice, but I do understand the dilemma you are facing with some. Good luck and happy sewing!
Hello, first time watcher here. You have some lovely quilts and I would love to see the final results. Please, Please finish them! They are too beautiful to sit in boxes. I subscribed just so I could see them done.
Love the pioneer sampler. You have some really beautiful projects that you’re working on. Thank you for sharing what you’re working and I look forward to see them completed.
Nora please don't abandon your National Parks project! It's gorgeous! I would treat the remaining 5 blocks as a block of the month or every 2 months kind of project to get it done, that would be so satisfying when you finish it. I love your ideas and you're channel❤️
I agree! This is so creative and gorgeous. Maybe doing one per month would take some stress off.
I agree, I make a couple of quilt tops each year, by breaking a pattern into 12 months. You actually look forward to it, because you don’t have to do more than one block.
I agree also. Keep on keeping on with this potentially fantastic quilt. It looks like you are making the pieced border the hard way. Are you not strip piecing, then cutting into diamonds similar to how a lonestar quilt is made?
Wow all the astronaut is a lot of blocks, go for it, make a small quilt. Can’t wait to see some of them done especially this one. I love the wide zebra border. Happy sewing.
Alot of very nice pieces! I really like the "dresden" great color, I'd leave that center open. The mariners compass blocks are gorgeous! Love the big zebra border - beautiful piece! I would just add a larger black or charcoal border for a lap quilt or throw. I have also experienced "quilt guilt" 😂 but sometimes you just have to pass it on. Someone will be thrilled to get it. It's really so freeing! I too lost the no UFO battle. 😊 Love your videos!
I LOVE THE PARKS ONE!!!! It’s so beautiful!
OMG! I can relate to this so much! I have such a problem with staying on task. Darn pinterest and youtube continue to provide me with inspiration and then I stray. 😂
Sooo many pretty projects! I love the vintage-looking pink quilt that’s 5x5! It’s looking ready to go!! Maybe a fun contrasting binding? What a sweet quilt ❤️💕🧵🪡✂️
Those Mariner's compasses are perfect round pillows.
Love all these! I so enjoy your channel, thank you ❤️😁🌹
Karen Nyberg is the astronaut. I love her fabric and have several pieces. Great idea on how to use them
I love your national park quilt…might be my fav. What about introducing some cool solids…like cherry wood. Bite the bullet and finish a couple of the ones you started but mix in solid sashing in rich earth tones for ones you havent started. Good luck1 -martha
I think the Dresden quilt would make a great quilt coat
You have some amazing projects.
A suggestion that came to mind was using some of the blocks as part of the backing on a quilt. Good luck.
The blue and tan ones toward the end could be turned on point and made into a runner or long wall hanging. My vote is pick the top three you love and finish them. Donate the rest to a guild or quilt museum. Let someone else be excited to finish something.
Love the mariners compass blocks!
Fun look at your ufo's! I love that national parks project. I hope you pass it along if you can't bring yourself to finish it. The pink monochromatic 5×5 definitely needs a little bit more. Maybe you could find a decorative stitch on your machine that could mimic the look of lace? I'm looking forward to seeing how you proceed!
Your 3 Christmas plaid stars are really cute. Depending on how big you want to make the finished project (quilt, table runner?) you could make partial stars that don't require a center block or stars with and "empty" center that just has the background fabric.
I thought I had 27 UFOs (some were really just "quilt parts" - all the fabric to make a quilt but assembly required) - but I organized my stash this weekend, removed 15 projects but found more and now have 43 UFOs. 😵💫
So many beautiful projects. I love your style and the fabrics you use.
What had become of the friendship quilt and the block exchange improve quilt?
Greetings from Germany 😊
So nice to see that even talented genius has UFOs. All in due time you will be inspired to complete what should be completed.
Many of those could be wall
Hangings with 3 or so independent blocks joined by something really special like brass rings or leather or wooden beads or anything. Maybe they are actually finished and don’t want anymore except a hanging sleeve. Love your creative eye
I agree with Anna regarding the zebra fabric. I would keep the wide zebra fabric and then add a wider border. I would probably find a bright print for that border. I would not add lace or anything else to the pink baby quilt. I would want a quilt that’s easy to wash and won’t be a danger to the baby or collect dirt.
You can off load the national park blocks. I would be honored to finish it. It would be wonderful in my camper.
I love your orphan block idea!
I love your Nat'l Park blocks! Rather than working with triangles, make those colorful borders Seminole-style. Sew 2 rectangles together... sew those units, offset... then trim to correct width. There will be a little waste but it's faster and more perfect. And you won't "waste" the whole project!
Make the three Tula pink squares positioned down the center of the quilt and build out from there. They are a strong draw and will hold the attention. The eye can rest outside them with whatever you choose.
National parks...use the pieced portions as sashing between the smaller blocks with the striped borders. You might have sufficient length to do that. But it may result in a COMPLETED wall hanging.
I wish I lived near you. I'd offer to take on the National Parks one from you in a heartbeat.
The park blocks, unpick the triangle ones use a solid strip of a color from triangle color and border then do the beige border. Then randomly place blocks that have triangles with the solid bordered blocks.
On your national park quilt, could you strip piece the fidgety border and then slice up the strips? I feel like there is a quicker way to do it.
You could put your finished national parks blocks into the centre of a medallion quilt, and use the other blocks throughout one of the borders. It would be so cool.
The 3 Tula Pink blocks could be great pillow covers.
I love Darlene's videos
A friend made beautiful bags for Christmas gifts using mariner's compass circles inset to canvas bags. You could make two bags and be done.
On the blocks, we only have three I would make that into a table runner. That would be very nice and then you wouldn’t have to worry about making a fourth are trying to make it into a quilt or throw.
Xmas blocks could become 3 lovely reusable drawstring gift bags. Nat’l Parks if you can stand it, finish Grand Canyon then all the rest simply do that inner border with just one of your fabrics. Sprinkle the triangle ones throughout a throw or twin size. Otherwise let it go! Disappearing blocks could become a quilt as is. A mixture of what you’ve already completed and improv squares in that same size would look great. Maybe sashed. Great work!
LOVE the look of the National Parks blocks. My idea: Finish 5 blocks like the one you have done with the beige outer border. You have enough triangle strips to do that. On the remaining 4 blocks, remove any triangle pieces and use a square in a square border treatment. (Check out Donna Jordan from Jordan Fabrics video called "Meditation" - it's the squares in the outer border.) That looks complicated but is very easy. You can do it scrappy, using the same fabrics you have in the triangle border. For the layout, you could alternate those blocks into 3 rows of 3. It would look stunning.
The lion piece would make a great bed runner!
The parks quilt mega pieces could be a leaders enders. Love the dresden just complete as is. Darlene blocks i was kind of picture it as a bed runner. Having them side by side. Some really nice starts there Nora. 👍🩷
I would use all of these orphan block in the back of other quilts.
on the wildlife blocks could you sew a bunch of big postage stamp like blocks with the same size squares that you are using and then cut them on the diagonal? You could even strip piece them first. I really like your plan but I can see how that would take an immense amount of time. I think you should keep going on the zebra border one and make it a twin size. That will really make someone happy.
The pale pink block baby quilt, it would be cool to buy a roll of maybe cream chenille it, basically maybe 1/4-1/2” strip that u sew on and wash and it makes a fuzzy strip like old fashioned chenille blankets. Google on UA-cam. A lot of folks r using it on edges of quilts and on words on quilts.. and a fair bit on baby quilts. Would be nice in the middle of your sashing in cream. And is definitely more washable than lace… check it out.
Gift bags out of the Christmas blocks.
Your 3 Christmas blocks would be a nice Vertical Wall hanging or a Coffee Table Runner.
The space/ disappearing blocks needs to be put on a design wall and layout to looka with the commitment to sew them together the same day!
The 3 blue blocks would be a very pretty table runner. Also the Christmas blocks into a table runner. Some into baby quilts.
Are the strips for the national parks quilt something you could do for leaders and enders? Then maybe you could gradually accumulate enough finished pieces to make it a quilt and not abandon it
Pink and green a table runner, no added border.
The Ruby Star layer cake blocks. I would purchase one of the splatter blenders from RSS, maybe the pinky peach with gold splatter and use that for sashing and a small border. Then use your extra layer cake pieces for that piano key border you were planning.
Nora - Your National Parks quilt project: Gather sewist friends for a “Picnic in the Park” sewing day, make s’mores and popcorn, bring out the denim you want to recycle and each sewist can get creative and make bags with your squares as they are…..make a party out of a problem project😁. I absolutely love your squares❤️
The Pioneer Sampler book was also on DVD. Maybe that would be available on Amazon?
Звезды просто сказочные!!!
Piece no. 1 is close. The border choice is good. max of 6in. wide. The quilting will make this project as it usually does. Back with a white. no binding.
Cannot wait to see how these turn out
The Layer Cake /Ruby Star Society ufo, i was thinking might look good as 4 stepping blocks down and across (diagonally) a strip quilt
Please finish the panel pictures quilt is stunning,please is gonna be awesome xxx
Don't abandon this project, u can do it ❤❤❤❤
Quilted Forest…owner. Has a wonderful way of organizing her UFO’s, one a month/ 12 a year. First day of the month she puts 1-12 numbers in a bucket. Pulls a number, and tackles the project in the bin with that number. Before she pulls the next month’s number she shows her project progress, then pulls the next month’s number…moving the projects towards the finish line. Worth the watch.
I found it interesting to see your UFOs that look nothing like mine.The three blue and brown blocks you showed were very interesting and then you went into a basket to show us another quilt and as you rummaged through that basket, I noticed some blue and brown smaller pieced blocks. They look like they would go with the three blocks. You need to go pull all those blue and brown pieces out of that UFO basket and put it with the three blue and brown blocks. That might inspire you to work some more with them.
I use much different colors and quilting styles than you, so I don't have much advice to offer you. I will say this, that one quilt that you said you weren't inspired, etc. and didn't realy want to work with it, bundle it and any extra fabric from working on it and drop it off at quilt guild or your closet thrift store. I pick up so much fabric and things from my town's thrift store that has great prices when compared to SA and GW which are too far away from me. There is no shame in giving someone else the opportunity to make something they will cherish. I'm sidelined big time due to bad arthritis, but when I could go to quilt guild, we had a woman there that I think most of the other ladies never noticed her talent. She could design incredible 12" square blocks with 40-50 pieces in it. But she definetly didn't have much when it came to money and so she used the fabric she could access. If she had access to better fabric (our thrift store wasn't open at that point) she would have been seen as so talented. Only saying this so you don't feel bad about letting projects go as they might make their way to a home that really needs them. Donating is giving a gift to other quilters.
I'm working on getting baby quilts ready to sew from my personal pre-cut pieces. So far fabric for 2 quilts ready to sew, triming some other large blocks, and sorting fabric to make a new type of quilt blocks somewhat like a Chinese coin quilt. Baby quilts are pretty much my limit as I can't handle bigger ones. I just wish someone would quilt them for me, but I have to try to machine quilt them.
Maybe consider using some as a pieced back for a quilt?
Pink bias tape in each sashing, on the pink and brown one.
On the national parks, check out "circle of nine" quilts.
I was referring to national parks quilt
I would take the 3 Tula Pink Blocks and make a Holiday Table runner. For the 1 with Zebra stripes I would Put a slim Black Border and as a frame and then another wide border.
The mariners compass squares make into pillows.
I would love to finish the national park quilt. It sounds like you suffer from the common quilters syndrome when we just get too far ahead of ourselves dreaming of our next project.
If you seam rip those bits that take forever off the blocks you haven't finished you might be able to finish one or two more with the pieces you've already made. Then you could do an alternate easy border like strips for the ones with nothing. I think there's enough of them to have it look cohesive and intentional to alternate them. If there's not enough to be even you could do 2 different kinds of borders and alternate by 3 types but I think it would look great if you used some of the fabric you used in those borders that took forever just to make strips or piano keys or something.
That National Parks project; how many blocks can you border with the bits of patched braiding you have done? Could you then do the rest with a border of a single co-ordinating print and then go from there? You’ll still have the work you put in but won’5 be daunted by all the work involved in carrying on doing the same.
Your work is really precise. The colors are lovely. If you tackle one quilt at a time then you will have a pile of gifts by Christmas 2025. How bad can that be? Also, if you are torn to the extent that you know that you won't finish any of those quilts, then you could make kits to sell on Etsy or give away to your subscribers. Does that help?
I did Darlene's BOM, too :)
What about taking the 3 blue and brown flannel blocks and pairing them with the 3 Tula pink flannel blocks and make a quilt with all 6 blocks? The zebra quilt looks good as is. Just quilt it and bind it. Pass on the national parks quilt. Don’t force yourself to finish it. That takes the joy out of it. I know it’s hard to not see it through but I’ve had to make that decision too and I feel so much better. The green and purple quilt looks completed. Quilt and bind it too!
I know what I would do with those National Park blocks is remove all of the little triangle strips that you have completed from the blocks and do another solid border around them instead, and then use all those triangle pieces to make some kind of inner border around the whole thing so you can still use them, but don’t have to make any more. There would be a way to incorporate those in some way into the body of the quilt top. But the blocks are still cute and I would just put another solid border like a black around them to tie them all together. It really wouldn’t take long to finish it that way- you’re 90% there.
long table runner with sashing (layer cake) squares
Add 3 contrasting reds on white blocks to the 3 Xmas tula blocks. The layout would be red left, white right for top & bottom rows, middle row would be white left, red right. Border in darker reds, etc.. Voila!!
Please do a tutorial on the the compass block. I have NEVER seen anything on that block. I’m retired Navy and would love to learn that one.
Thanks for showing us your UFOs. If any bring you no joy at all, pass them on to someone who may love you. How about making runners, coasters or placemats with the blocks with the striped borders? If all else fails, you can always donate them to a charity shop. ❤👍from Somerset UK
Quilt guilds will take ufo’s.
Hi really enjoy your videos you are so talented I'm thinking of treating myself to a jelly roll ,as I usually make things with scraps what block would you suggest for a quilt project using a jellyroll?❤🎉
The national parks blocks... take the outer plain border off the one then lay them out one with pieced border, alternate with one without. Then the plain border around the whole thing. Any extra blocks on the back. Only need to complete maybe one and just take the partial piecing off the rest. Hope this helps. Otherwise, pass it on without shame.
yup, finish the Batik, orange and blue.
Put finished blocks as acenter medallion or frame. Then you are free to do something completely different with the rest of the quilt.
pillow cases😊
Last 1 maybe throw pillows? Yhr zebra one put binding around it and be done.
Try trim on wheels for lace.
table runner from Ruby layer cake.
Suggestion for three homies blocks, staggered column down centre with sampler blocks filling left and right sides. Double win because no seam matching required!
How about making a table runner from the Tula Christmas blocks?
The quilt with the zebra border .... I don't know how big it is, but to me it screams teen quilt. If it needs to be bigger to do that, I think a small scrappy border (not really thin) added to the zebra and then a black outside to frame it out would look great. I really like that quilt.
I'm in the Grand Canyon state.
Why not have some of the borders shared - this would make the quilt smaller - add sashing in black or dark brown - good luck !
Frame smaller blocks, or mae 4-patches, lay it out and see if you nesd more bits to fill in spaces. Find your original dissapearing patches first? Then see how many blocks you need?
The National Park one . send it to Tiffany. ' Tiffany's Quilting Life"
16 patch Orphan block - use darker contrasting borders, not the light colors you showed. Make it POP!
If even look8ng at a project makes you uncomfortable then time to give it away. Life is to short for that
TURN THE STATE PARKS INTO PLACEMATS