A Quilt A Day

Ready or not, it’s summertime out there, right? Well, here in the country where I live, it’s a rainy day on a summer day! Pssst! You are right, we do not have the four seasons here!

Anyway, if you have been here before, you would have read about my “house cleaning”! Now with the house basically clean and much better arranged furnitures in place, I have the painting job to think about next. Having not decided on what color to choose from, and what more, to even start painting, I was thinking more along the lines of getting some UFO quilts completed. I am a novice but avid quilter. When I got myself started with quilting, I just couldn’t stop. The last few days, I have been working on the basketful of scrapes fabrics and piecing them to make baby quilts for my grandkids. Well, there I go again with yet another few UFOs. At present more than 10 UFOs quilts and a couple of small wall hangings quilts all stacked up in the closets, just need to have the backings pieced, which I am not very keen in doing. :( Hmm. I am a lazy bone at that though, and if the backings are not done, when will those quilts ever be completed! There are also a few stitchery blocks that need to be assembled and I haven’t got the best creative ideas about how these blocks would turn out once finished. Gee! Have I got so much to do with so little time!?

Oh yes, there are more UFOs, trust me, but some are nearing completion. Most of them just need a couple of more blocks made, or some stash busting for borders and backings. These few I am talking about here are the small wall hangings, table mats and canisters. But this will be another stack of quilts to be done for another time and that's for sure! :(

I just figured if I got these pulled together and placed in a spot in the house where I'd have to look at them every day, and then I'd feel bad because they weren't finished. That guilty feeling again! It's scary how many almost finished UFOs I have languishing around. Time to get organized here lazy-butt!

Nevertheless, at least for now I am in the mood to get these UFOs quilts completed. To reward myself for that, I took out a quilt I purchased quite sometime ago, and have in on my bed last night. It was raining lightly at the wee hour of the morning and it felt so nice and warm snuggled under it.

Just to share with anyone who is interested, here are some pictures of my UFOs quilting tops and finished wall hanging quilts for your viewing.

Well, to friends out there who experience the four seasons, wishing you a happy and blessed summertime!

~Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to him.~ Jean Paul Richter

~ I will praise thee with my whole heart.~ Psalm 138:1