Unsettled and Haunted by Quilty UFOs

My sewing life feels unsettled right now 

and my thoughts and dreams are haunted by UFOs.

I have recently pulled out fabrics for two projects and not sewn a stitch.

Both of those have been put aside.

I have two current WIPs that are languishing unfinished ,

even though I love the fabrics and patterns. 

I have three larger BOM type projects that I started this year and I have not kept up.

I  also have two scrap projects started this year that are also sitting neglected.

I have one project that I started last fall and it was left behind
when I went south in November
and never picked up again when I returned just before Christmas.

All of these are projects that I really want to finish.

I cannot quite say why I am not sewing.

I could say it is because I am enjoying the warm weather and flowers blooming in my yard.

I am, but usually I go out and enjoy and then come in and sew.

It just is not happening.

I could blame it on the current unrest in the greater world,

but usually my sewing space in my happy place.

Peace by Piece is a personal motto.

I have been cleaning and organizing in my sewing room and closets.

These fabrics are some that recently haunted my quilty muse at night,

so I dug them out to set them in the sun.

These are Timeless Treasure fabrics from 2007.

I hope they are the ones to get me out of my quilty funk.

There are three blocks for a Sampler BOM from 2008

that never made it into a quilt.

This pattern is still available free online

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Somewhere In Time BOM 2008 @ Block Central

It is a vestige left after the passing of this once great Quilting Forum,

one of the places where I learned to quilt.

2008 was the year before I started my quilting blog
so I have no old WIP photos.

You can see how old these stitches are and how imperfect my points and seams were then.

At that point of my quilting journey I was still sewing on my old light-weight

 Brother machine, that was getting tired and even trips to the 

sewing machine care guy I had at the time did not help.

You can see the seam in one of HSTs that the stitches are too far apart and loose.

I will have to reinforce some of these seams to use these blocks

but I am not taking them apart to try to make them "perfect."

The background fabric is not to be found.

It has probably long since been used in another project.

I do not think I am making the rest of the blocks. 

They are what they are and I am going to honor the past

by giving these three blocks a finish.

I will see what the rest of the fabric says to my quilty muse.

Hope to have a finish to show you someday soon.

Wish me luck ... ;)