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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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 ... ;)
