Just needs Borders!

I've been working on last month's UFO. My Quilt Guild started a UFO Challenge whereby we pick a number once a month and then everyone works on a UFO from their list that corresponds with that number.  Last month my project was the "Asteria" quilt, or "Asteroid" quilt as I call it.  (It's for Drew, and a 12 yr old boy would prefer a more masculine name.  "Asteria" sounds pretty feminine to me!)  Anyway, this month, instead of starting work on a new UFO, (I should be working on my Gravity quilt,) I decided to continue working on the quilt I already have up on my design board.  I really got  a lot done last month going from a pile of fabric to where all that it needs now is the outer borders.  I have fabric for that, and am excited to get this top done!  Here's my progress:

I really do need to put this away for now though.  I have to give a presentation to the quilt guild at the April meeting, and I am going to demonstrate how to make a medallion quilt (Ricky Tims) and I have to make a sample!  So the borders on Asteroid will have to wait a few weeks.  Just need to have it finished by the end of November!

What Have I Done!?

My fabric for the Brilliant Beauties of Joy quilt arrived.  OH MY!  A 25 page instruction booklet, TONS-O-PAPERPIECING PATTERNS, and a huge stack of rainbow color fabrics.  I am highly intimidated!!  Maybe, this time, I have bitten off more than I can chew!  It's an EXPERT level quilt, and I feel I am up to the challenge, but I'm really afraid to get started!  I know how to follow directions, and I know how to paper-piece, but this will be a huge undertaking!  This is gonna take a LONG TIME to do!

 

I will have to add this to my UFO list.  I have so many quilts in the works right now, I need to finish some of them before I start this!  This will consume me, I know it will!

Asteria Progress

One month ago, my quilt guild met for our usual monthly meeting.  We were given a challenge, to list our UFO's, from 1 to 12.  If you did not have 12 UFO's, then you just repeated the list.   A number was then drawn from a hat, and we would work on whichever UFO corresponded with that number.  Thanks to this challenge, Asteria is not longer a pile of fabrics stacked in a  box!  It's up on the design board and taking shape!  Here's my progress, one month's worth!

Seeing it small like this makes me wonder, "where is all the burgundy!?"  The quilt is supposed to be burgundy and silver.  It looks pretty white-ish to me!  Too bad you can't see the silver specks and shimmers in those whites, grays, and blacks!  Anyway, there are still quite a few blocks to fill in yet, and they DO contain burgundy.  Also there is a pretty burgandy/black/gray batik print for the final border.  BURGUNDY binding!  This is going to be really pretty when it's done.

Critical Error

Well, live and learn!  Yesterday I spent all day making 32 V-block units for Asteria.  I was soo proud of them, finishing them from cutting to trimming, all in one day, and they are perfect!  My back hurt from leaning over the cutting table/ironing board all day (pass the Aleve, please).  I was so happy to call it quits around 11 pm!  But I was DONE with V-blocks!  Or so I thought!

This morning, I put them next to their neighbor blocks, and WHOA!!  HOLD THE PHONE!  They didn't match!

Silver points are supposed to be white!

I had accidentally reversed the colors!  My stack of V-blocks are useless to me!  A whole day of work, WASTED!  My back ache and hard work was all for naught!

Today I will start over, doing it right.  Thank the Lord I have enough fabric of each color to weather this mistake.  I will save the 32 V-units and label them for the future, but I am so mad at myself I could scream.  In fact, that might help!   AUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEHHHHH!