NEW WALL QUILT

I have added a new project to my Quilt Gallery. {;-)giggle, QG is a wishful thinking sort of reality.} This gallery is a short wall outside the guest bathroom where I rotate my small quilt projects. I have many UFO's in my Quilt Studio {another giggle, read sewing room} that I need to finish. UFO's are 'unfinished objects', ask any avid quilter and I bet she has a few. I have promised myself that this is the year I will get caught up and finish what I have started before I get into any new big quilting projects. I'm not doing all that well. I had to make a big boy quilt for Jackson and there have been some wonderful classes in my quilt guild that I wanted to do and of course I just had to do the church fair booth soft windows that I recently featured. So I am just futzing along with realizing my hope for this year. Learning to use my home sewing machine to quilt my work is also a big hope for this year. Machine quilting is really in vogue and I have seen the most wonderful quilting at guild and at shows. I just know I can learn to do this, but it takes practice, practice, practice. And so I have decided to use my UFO's to practice, practice, practice. This little quilt top has been around for ages. The center was a practice block to make sure my measurements were accurate. Believe me you don't want to try to put together a quilt with poorly measured pieces. It quickly becomes a distorted mess. Anyway I added the border and layered it and it was perfect for my purposes. I wanted to practice small scale quilting.

All in all I feel comfortable with my effort and know now that I can manage small area stitches. And now I also have another cute piece to hang in my 'gallery'.