The UFO number picked for October is #11, which coincidentally was the UFO I swapped out for September, and is a block swap project that has been waiting a long time in the queue.
Scrappy 9 patches are going to be laid out in a zig zag fashion. I copied this layout from a quilt Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville called her Zig-Zag 9 Patch (made in 2005), although hers was made from 2" leader-ender squares and my blocks are from 2.5" squares. Bonnie has excellent references on her site for figuring setting squares and triangles and I will make good use of those. I'll have to count up the blocks already made as the bed-sized layout I drew up requires a few more 9 patches. The setting fabric is the warm buff yardage in the left side of the photo.
This is a very very busy month for me but I do plan to work on this UFO as much as I can, in between finishing the wedding quilt, my outfit for the wedding, more sewing for the wedding, and THE WEDDING, now only 29 days away! DD Elaine is off to her Bachelorette weekend with her sister and friends in Palm Springs, and her fiance Chris is in Las Vegas with his group of pals. I went with Elaine to her final fitting on Thursday and her wedding gown is just perfect on her. Plus, Elizabeth, the seamstress, charged her $100 less than first quoted! Elizabeth is just a doll and so fun to talk to. She's doing two of the bridesmaids' dresses as well, and asked for pictures of the wedding. So sweet.
7 comments:
Love your header photo! :-) Your 9 patch blocks are going to look wonderful zig-zagged. Have a happy weekend!
I am looking forward to seeing your zigzag setting! Hey, a better price than quoted is terrific!
Hi Annie, Your doing much better on your UFO challenge then I am by far. And today I guess we are thinking alike as I just changed my background to the same orange theme for the month of Oct. LOL
Have a great month. : )
You've made so much progress on UFOs this year. So even if you don't much done this month, you've done well the rest of the year.
Your October is going to be HUGE! I'm sure the bride (and MOB ) will look lovely.
The colours in this months UFO quilt are very Annie colours. Good luck with your progress.
With a family wedding coming up, I think I'd be putting away the quilting to-do list...you probably have a thousand wedding things to do!
Having finished 4 UFO's this year, I can't tell you what a great feeling it is, Annie! I love the layout you chose, too! Sounds like you may have your nose to the grindstone this month!
Cheers!
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