When we lived in Doha the first time, Desert Storm started, and a lot of Americans left, I didn’t know anyone, and I had a lot of quilting time. I decided I would make a lot of half-square triangles so I would always be able to whip up a baby quilt in a very short time, and I spent days cutting the fabrics, stitching the half-square triangles, ironing, sorting . . .
I made a couple baby blankets, but I still have a lot of half square triangles left. We moved to Kuwait, and I put a quilt together that I could hand quilt at our Tuesday Stitch Group, where I always liked to have hand work to do when I didn’t have a binding that needed stitching on or something.
For all those weeks . . . I didn’t get a lot done. Finally, I machine quilted in the white squares, and then I did some practicing for some new techniques in the star centers. It doesn’t make a lot of sense thematically, but the quilt is done, I’m giving it away and I don’t have to think about it any more.
Finished! Out! Out!
I’ve been wondering what you have been working on lately. Glad for the updates. Isn’t it great to get the UFOs up and out? I try to get one or two resurrected at year. Some years work better than others.
There are some I just don’t want to work on, Momcat. Honestly, my best bet is just to keep working on one till I finish it. I have one that i’ve been working on since Germany . . . hmmmm, more actually . . .