A little bit long.

UFO List.  Oh, what fun.    When we had the auction earlier this month, I went through all of my UFOs and my list has changed dramatically!  While I was purging, I decided that some of the UFOs on my list I really did not want to work on and several went to the auction.  I feel so much better and less weighed down with projects I no longer loved.  So my list has been downsized as a result and instead of 68 projects, there are only 49.  

Sew, to make a long story short, my #3 is Dear Jane and #32 is Kimberbell Garden, both of which won’t be touched until after my retreat.  Dear Jane is a long term project and maybe later this year I will get to it.  Kimberbell Garden is a machine embroidery project that I want to do, have all the material ready but will have to wait until I get Dragons taken care of first.  Crazy, isn’t it? That half of my UFOs are now machine embroidery!  Oh well, whether it is embroidered or pieced they both have to be quilted.  I guess our sewing styles change over time and I really do love both types but machine embroidery is addictive and I find that it is a lot more fun at times!  Is there anyone else here that has found that you prefer one technique over another as we progress?  

Our guild retreat starts Tuesday afternoon and goes until Thursday and I am looking forward to it.  I am taking two UFOs, Mini Block Club and Etoiles Rogue to work on.  I then have several smaller projects like BOM (guild).  I have a couple of kid’s quilts to work on, in fact one of them is partially done in the hoop (little hedgehogs) and 5 inch pinwheels.  I also have a table runner (guild challenge for June) that I want to do.  It uses 2 colors, mine are midnight blue and copper and you can choose one other color (I chose red) and I think it will be a perfect Memorial Day project.  I might do that as QAYG and finish it there.  That’s probably more than enough but I want to make sure that if something goes south I have another to work on.  

Now to work on hedgehogs in the hoop and then make a couple of pincushions for another swap.  But more coffee first please.