Earlier this week, I got the fall newsletter from a local
quilt shop. They are starting an “Almost Free” Block of the Month club in
September that intrigued me. You pay $8.00 for the first month’s fabric. If you
bring that finished block the next month, you get block 2 for free, etc. One of
the colorways being offered is patriotic, which I love.
I was seriously considering joining this, but then I thought
of all the UnFinished Objects (UFOs) that I have sitting in the armoire in my
studio. Almost all of them have all the fabric already purchased for at least
the quilt tops. If I made just one block per month for a UFO, I’d be able to
finish up a few in the next year.
One appealing thing about doing the BOM with the quilt shop
is the accountability of getting a block done each month. I’m going to use this blog to help with
accountability. On the first Friday of each month, I’m planning on posting
about the UFO that I’m working on. For my purposes, a UFO is a project that I
started at least 5 years ago. If I started it more recently than that, I’ll
consider it a WISP (Work In Slow Progress).
The first UFO I’m going to work on is my “All Star” quilt. I
was inspired by the All Stars quilt shown in the book Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes. This
was one of the first quilting references I bought when I started my first quilt
back in about 1993. I’m not using most of the blocks that they did, but I loved
the idea of using patriotic fabrics and a variety of different star blocks.
According to my documentation, I started piecing this in
March of 2001. (I was pregnant at the time, so I have a good excuse for why I
didn’t finish this quilt sooner – babies take up a lot of time, and it doesn’t
stop as they get older!) Each block is a 12” square. My plan is to have twelve
blocks total. So far I have made six:
That's what I have so far. On the first Friday of September, I'll show you the new block(s) I've made for this UFO.
Happy stitching!
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