Wednesday, May 14, 2025

UFO Challenge 2025--Report #1

Our quilt guild recently started a UFO Challenge (UnFinished Objects, in case you didn't know), with each member submitting a list of UFOs and what they hope to achieve on their projects. The challenge is running from April until October. For each goal successfully completed, we get our name entered into a prize drawing, and for each goal not completed, our penalty is one fat quarter. Those fat quarters become part of the final prize.

As usual, I greatly overestimated how much I am likely to get done on my UFOs. The list I submitted contains 13 different projects! Most people listed three or four. This week I buckled down and completed two of my UFO goals.

Sewcialites 2, 9" blocks

The blocks shown above were made as part of the guild's 
most recent Block of the Month, Sewcialites 2 from  the Fat Quarter Shop's website. I finished a quilt top with 3" blocks from the same pattern (see it HERE,) but lost interest in making more of the 9" blocks. My UFO goal was to join them together into a baby quilt top.

Before joining the blocks together, I decided to rework two of them that bothered me as part of the group. Those were the blocks at the top right (that bright blue isn't used anywhere else) and the bottom left (needs more of the background fabric.) I changed the corner squares in the bottom block to half-square triangles with the dark blue background, and I'm much happier with that look.


Instead of taking apart the block with the bright blue, I picked a different block pattern to make from scratch. This was a very easy block to piece.


After those were done, I figured out a plan for sashing and borders. It took a couple days, but I now have a finished quilt top. UFO Challenge Goal #1 completed!

Sewcialites 2 quilt top
39.5" x 50"

I didn't waste any time after that UFO success before I pulled out another project. This was a small quilt that had been pieced several years ago, then the quilting was started in 2022. Each fabric has been quilted with a different design in a different color thread. Here are some close shots of the fabrics and the quilting.



This photo of the back really shows the texture of the quilting. The backing is a flannel print.


All that needed to be done on this quilt was to finish quilting the borders, then add the binding. I took care of those items, and now it's a finished quilt. Goal #2 completed!

Diagonal Squares baby quilt
38" x 45"

It feels so good to have completed two of the goals from my UFO Challenge list. Maybe that will motivate me to keep pushing through the other projects I've chosen. If I can average completing two goals per month, it will be a very successful challenge for me.

Linking up with:
Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter
Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation
Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty


Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

7 comments:

  1. The guild challenge sounds like a lot of fun. Congratulations on completing two of your goals. The quilting on the baby quilt is stunning.

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  2. Both quilts turned out so well! I like the sampler setting for the Sewcialites blocks, and your changes to the two blocks.

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  3. Woo hoo on getting those UFOs finished! Love your Socialites blocks and color scheme and good call on the changes. Wow, the quilting on that last quilt is wonderful! Why is it that we all have those projects that are thisclose to being finished and then just sit? Which reminds me, I have a "quilt with different stitches and colors" project I need to get around to quilting....

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  4. Two great UFO finishes! I love your top and the quilting on your last quilt!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects

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  5. Ohh way to go!! those are fun ones!!

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  6. Hooray for your 2 goals completed! I really like your Sewcialites setting and feel you made the 2 blocks so much more cohesive with your colors. It feels so good to get things done and moving along. I need to return to that train as I did so many last year.

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  7. Way to go girl! I have so many UFOs and you're inspiring me to start finishing them. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
    https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2025/05/07/wednesday-wait-loss-432

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