UFO Busting!

The UFOs have landed and they have taken over…I have Unfinished Object Bins all over the place and they are sucking my will to live!  You know that overwhelming feeling…SEW I have decided to do a clean sweep!  NO new projects until some ALL of these UFOs fly the coop!

                         

{For those of you NEW to quilting…don’t be alarmed!!  Quilters have tagged a unique meaning onto the term ‘UFO’. No, they're not those saucers flying around in the sky with little green men in them…(if you see THOSE while quilting then you’ve been drinking something that you shouldn’t or perhaps you have been quilting for too long and need to take a break…? )   A UFO in the quilter’s world is usually an Unfinished Object--the remnants of those quilts we start to make…but never seem to finish!}

I’m sure you'll find UFOs tucked away in the bins and baskets of nearly every quilter. And I’m sure that  we're not the only generation of quilters who have accumulated them…after all look at all those antique quilt blocks that Bonnie Hunter is always stumbling across!

Yesterday I pulled out one such UFO bin…It was marked Button Town..Thank goodness I am organized because inside the bin was everything that I needed to complete the project…the fabric, all the appliqué pieces, the pattern pieces, freezer paper and the magazine that the project came out of.  At least I’m not scrambling looking for fabric and pattern…I HATE that!  If that were the case, it would remain a UFO FOREVER!!

Yup…it was in bits and pieces…but at least I HAD all the bits and pieces.  So I put on a new Audio Book…

…and started stitching…

By evening this was my Button Town…I tweaked the pattern a bit but you get the idea…

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It’s called Button Town because the windows on the houses were suppose to be buttons but I liked the appliquéd squares better.   There will be red berry Buttons on the green vines…so I can still get away with calling it Button Town. (I threw some buttons on the top vine so that you could get the idea…)  I used a lot of Japanese Daiwabo fabric in this little wall hanging…love this stuff!!  (Thanks Karen…see the grey border…from YOU!!)

 

In another day or two and I will have busted this UFO!  SEW exciting!! 

I bet you have a few UFOs of your own!  Come on ‘fess up..and join me in a little UFO Busting!  Kick a few of those suckers right out of the ball park…It’s a great feeling!

Have a terrific Tuesday and Happy Quilting!~P