A Lovely Year of Finishes, 2013 UFO challenge/January Goal Setting

I am joining in!! 
My January goal is to finish this quilt:

This is one of the projects I was working on for Christmas....I need to add the top flying geese border, then a big 4" border all the way around.
I also need to figure out what I'll use for backing and binding.

That is my goal to be completed on or before January 31st! I have got to get this done...otherwise it will sit just like this until December and then I am not going to remember the measurements or where I found the instructions for these flying geese borders :o)

Are you looking forward to finishing some WIPS &/or UFO's this year? Why not join in on the linky party? It's encouraging and gives you that extra little push to get tings accomplished. If you'd like to, you can check it out HERE.



 

WIP!! (Works in Progress)

I am preparing to make several blue jean children's aprons!
I have completed to first phase....cutting!

Lisa & I are attending a Women's Expo at the Ocala Ballroom where we will have a vendor booth set up selling some items. These aprons will be there. Here is a sample of a finished one:

Here are the blocks I have received so far from my most recent F8 swap. I have yet to decide exactly how I am going to combine these.....sashing is a must, to be sure....don't you think?

Butterfly blocks:

Chicken blocks:

I also still need to find the "perfect" fabric to use as sashing on my cat blocks quilt form the last F8 swap. Here are the pics of the blocks:

So............lots of things in progress!

Here are some blocks I cut from a panel. It is called "Cat's Meow" from South Seas.
I am currently trying to locate the correlating fabric locally, so I don't have to pay shipping. I think these colors are just so fun!

That's just a few, there are 10 different blocks :)

Here is my bestie "in the process" of a quilty project! Hee Hee, she thought I was taking a pic of the quilt on the floor, lol. This is a flannel rag-top quilt!

Here are my leaders & enders.......a constant "in process":

And these...are waiting to be sewn :)

Process Update...........

Well, here is my first process post!

I am working on a "pinks and greens" quilt. This is probably going to end up being a Project Linus quilt, but I haven't decided for sure yet. I like the lighter / shabby chic-ish pinks and greens and in the swap I am in, I have received a lot of these bright/vibrant pinks and greens..........so, I am thinking I will put them into a quilt of their own. Here are the blocks laid out:

I am thinking I will add sashing and then several borders.

Any thoughts would be great!!

Here is the panel I bought to make a quilt for my son :) I think it would be a great rememberence of our time in Nevada!

I purchased two panels that each had 6 squares. I decided to cut them into rows of three and I am thought I would put sashing between each row.

Here are my correlating fabrics:

And here is what I am going to use for the backing:

I went back and forth on exactly how to place the sashing on. I had a little help, as you can see, lol.

This is what I decided on for the horizontal sashing:

Whatdya think?? You can see the borders I am going to sew on.

Then I am thinking I am going to put a wide border on the outside of those thinner borders. Maybe a 5" or 6" of the cream correlating fabric.