I've decided to join Ms. P Designs' PHD program again.
Maybe I can be successful this year? Here is my wish list of UFOs. More details below.
I started resenting the projects I put on my list last year, so I've decided to make a much longer list than I have in the past two years with the hope that I have enough variety to keep me happily going. Many of these have had the fabric sitting for ages without starting or just are tops that need to be quilted. They are taking up large amounts of space in my closet that I'd like to free up. (Of course this will just shift the space from my closet to somewhere else in my house. 😬)
Here is a brief lengthy overview of my list.
1. Magnificent Mystery: This one is a carryover from last year. The last clue will come out in February.
2. Selvedge knitted rug: I've been collecting these selvedges since 2020. I might have enough for two? I just keep making the "yarn" balls bigger. It's time to start the actual knitting.
All the selvedges in bags in the photo below have been gifted to me. Many don't quite meet my needs for the rugs. If anyone out there (in the US) wants a bag, let me know. Otherwise, I'm trying to come up with a project that would use them.
3. History center quilt: I rescued this top from the local history center's yard sale last year. It's someone else's UFO! It needs to be quilted. I have purchased backing but I haven't found the perfect binding yet. I want a country-ish navy blue print to blend, but I don't generally have that style of fabric in my stash. I'll see what I think once it's quilted. The top is pretty busy, so I will probably use an edge-to-edge design.
4. Lone Starburst: The plan is to custom quilt this one. I have everything I need other than a completed quilting plan.
5. One article of clothing: Here is a pile of fabric that will become my new wardrobe. I just need to figure out the fitting. {I have been saying this for the last two years.}
6. A second article of clothing: See #5.
7. For the Love of Geese: This needs to be custom quilted. I need to create a backing and select binding fabric from my stash.
8. Nancy's Bonnie and Camille quilt: I inherited this kit from a member of my small quilt guild's estate. I'm about halfway through sewing it. I have backing and binding.
9. Dino baby quilt: Only a pile of fabric right now. Background fabric is not pictured, but I own it already.
10. Navy/white quilt: This is my oldest UFO, I think. It's from 1999 or so. It needs to be custom quilted. Luckily I cut out binding for it at the time of creation. Can you imagine trying to match the navy 25+ years later?! Everything is ready; I just need to carve out time on my long arm.
11. Taylors Square from Just Two Charms book: Only a pile of fabric right now. I will use the linen as the background fabric. The bird print is the backing and the blue fabric is the binding. I was going to do this as part of the quilt along when the book came out and just never got started.
12. Solid color bed quilt--king: I need to wash and press both bolts of fabric, determine what size to make, and decide on a quilting design. Hope I have enough of the blue for binding. I have been putting this off for a couple of years and now both fabrics are out of print.
13. Mini tulip quilt: This is one of my oldest projects. I think it's from the late 1990s or perhaps very early 2000s. I need to fix part of it. I wish I could find more of the leaf fabric (green Debbie Mumm raindrops print) so that I can make everything run the right direction. It would probably be faster to start over. 14. Bonnie Hunter Unity: I love this block and the fabrics. But as you know, Bonnie's quilts can take forever to piece. For whatever reason, I got hung up on picking the fabric that surrounds the block. It took me four years to decide on that. Ugh. Like it even matters that much. I do have a bolt of fabric set aside for backing too.
15. Alligator appliqué: This was on my list last year, but got switched out for Nancy's quilt. The appliqué needs to be done. Have I mentioned how much I dislike appliqué? It's been hanging around so long that I accidentally bought two backing fabrics for it. 🤦🏻♀️
16. Sun & Sand: This is a small guild project. I'm scared to dive in. It's a very intricate paper-pieced quilt with loads of minuscule pieces. I couldn't decide on fabrics for months 1 - 3, so I decided to start with month 4. I cut enough for one foundation. Then I noticed that the cut sizes the designer gave are about double what I think are needed. So I stopped. Is it better to know that the pieces will fit and have a lot of waste or try to re-figure the cut sizes? Also, my friends who are further into this project than I am said that month 4 is one of the hardest. Figures. Ha.
17. Another solid color bed quilt, full: I need to wash both bolts of fabric and determine the size to cut. I measured the existing bed quilt and it came up at 87.5" x 87.5". That seems like an odd size for a full-size mattress, so again, struggling to make a cutting decision. Even though I know that the existing one fits. I need to stop overthinking everything. The quilting design is chosen and has been for months.
18. Pink/black: Decide which pink, make entire quilt. White background fabric isn't pictured. Need to select backing from stash.
19. Curve: Make entire quilt. Questioning my backing fabric. Purchased something that looks terrible with it. 😞 20. Range: Make entire quilt. I can't remember what I was planning for the backing. This was one of those things I was saving to do as a treat after finishing something tough and it just kept getting set aside.
21. Lonestar: I purchased this vintage top on eBay. I don't have a backing, but I will use black for the binding. I will custom quilt it.
22. Athena bag: I need to buy hardware and a long enough zipper since I didn't have the right ones. It's so hard to find notions locally now and a bit hard to do some things as online orders, you know?
23. Linda Hahn class/Beach Bumz: Finish top, choose backing from leftovers, quilt.
24. Kaleidobloom: I purchased a self-paced class. I had to wait a while for my fabric to arrive and then I got busy with other things. The bottom fabric is the backing.
25. Knitted blanket: Started in late December 2025. The pattern calls for 10 skeins. I've knitted through three of them so far. I'm having fun with it and hope to keep the momentum going for a quick finish. {Not like my started-in-2017 baby blanket finish from last year!}
26. Whatever catches my fancy from my stash. Must be from stash.
