Help! I need motivation ! Any hints?

[Lois B.]

The skirt is great. Have fun dyeing.

[Renata L.]

Love your skirt, Rosemary--glad you posted your latest UFO!

[Renata L.]

Well done Rosemary. Great looking skirt attached to a great looking pair of pins! :lol:

If I was a little girl I wouldn't like to be compared to a balding middle-aged man with glasses - even if he is an amazing chef! I'm with Izzy on that one. :lol:

Yes but she does love his Fantastical Feasts programmes, and wants to try some of the ideas at home!

[Nancy R.]

Beautiful skirt, Rosemary! Glad you decided to do some dyeing this weekend rather than doing some dying! Good one to get right!! I don't plan on doing either this weekend, but I do plan on getting a UFO finished.

[wendy w.]

Skirt finished, well done Rosemary. *gong rings out* It's pretty.

Why is Izzy being Hestia? Izzy I assume is your daughter (who else would you go to such lengths for and consider dyeing (dying) for) is this amateur dramatics or a party or in order to dish up some fantastical feasts to you.

[wendy w.]

Izzy is going to be in a school play (year 5 - if you understand such things), and this year she actually

a) gets to be on the stage (she has just been off stage chorus so far)
b) a speaking part and
c) (most important) doesn't need to wear the grey wool skirt I made for 'village girl' persona 4 years ago, and have used for the last 3 plays (the built in length & waist adjustments have worked wonderfully :wink: )

I have already made 3 pairs of flame brooches to pin the chiton at the shoulders, and they are rather good even if I do say so my self - photos will follow in a day or so.

[wendy w.]

Well done to Izzy she'll have so much confidence looking the part.

[Nancy R.]

I finished a UFO! I made this quilt a couple of years ago in an ugly fat quarter challenge in my local guild. I had two months from the receipt of the fat quarter to design and make my quilt and I was determined to make a lap sized quilt, so it was quite a challenge. I collected a bunch of fabric that I thought went with the fat quarter, then designed each section as I went along. I did some cursory quilting and bound it by the deadline. But it needed more quilting, which I've worked on off and on for 2 years and now it's finllay done.

Here's the front of the quilt:

(The ugly fat quarter fabric is the brown fabric in the center block.)

And here's the back:

Nancy

[Renata L.]

Congratulations on finishing that UFO! Isn't it amazing--the ugly fat quarter doesn't look ugly anymore! I guess it just needed company! Very nice and aren't you glad it's done? What will you do with it now?

[Nancy R.]

I'm REALLY glad to have it done! One of the main things I was doing was filling in the background around the outside stars with pebbles, but I refused to take off the binding first, so it was tough and time-consuming. But I love how it looks! This is just a lap quilt for me to snuggle with. It's got a thin batting, so it'll be nice when it's not cold but I need a layer between me and the kitties' claws. (I don't trim their claws at all since they spend a lot of time outside and need to be able to protect themselves, so I get little pokes all the time.)

Nancy

[Joan D.]

Nancy that is beautiful congratulations, what a great feeling to finish. Joan

[wendy w.]

Lot of work in it Nancy, love the quilting. Well done finishing, hope your kitties appreciate it .

[wendy w.]

Great work, Nancy, on getting it finished - I'm with you on not taking the binding off too :wink:

[E.M. T.]

Hooray !!!Looks great !

[Norma H.]

Your quilt looks great. Isn't it wonderful how an ugly fabric can turn out beautiful in the right company?