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    Marilyn,

    It's embarassing, but I think I have a similar stack of UFOs that I have carried across the ocean to hopefully finish. Somehow over the last few years I started way more projects than I finished. When I started quilting the HST exchange quilt, I realised I hadn't quilted anything in a long time. So immediately after finishing that one and while I was still in the rhythym, I started quilting on a vintage double wedding ring quilt top that I bought at an auction at my last guild in 2010. A friend had basted it for me on her long arm so it was just waiting for me to quilt it.

    I also finished a Show Pin Quilt hanging that I made from a kit I bought at the Cherrywood booth in Houston a few years ago. I had to finish piecing it and quilt it. It's ready to hang now.

    My daughter had asked me to make a quilt for her best friend's baby. The sweet baby girl is one now. My daughter was coming to visit so I quickly tried to finish it before they got here so they could take it home in their suitcase and I could save the postage. I was close, but didn't quite get it done in time. The pattern is Modern Baby and came in the mail.

    It feels so good to get these done! I am also almost finished quilting another lap size top also! Just working on the border.

    Lorna

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      Lorna... some of us just plain like to piece...I like to move from project to project so as not to be tired of any one
      or to change types of handwork, etc. always want to try some new idea...or join a new group... This way I have
      things in all stages and I can do what ever strikes my fancy ! Well..that's my story and I'm stickin' to it !! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
      Your finished quilts are great !! Love that wedding ring !

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        Lorna,
        Wonderful quilts!

        (and yet again, :mrgreen: )

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          Thanks!

          Marilyn, I think that is my story too. I love trying new and different things. And I do have several projects going at various stages. I always like to have some hand project too for times like now when I want to spend some time in front of theTV watching the Olympics. (I finished the binding by hand on the 2 larger quilts and sewed the labels on.) It's all fun.

          Rita, I think it has been said before on the forum. Get rid of projects you are "done" with. Have you learned what you wanted to out of it? Then either give it away or make placemats or purses or something. Don't feel you have to finish it or keep it. I did get rid of several things in that category before moving.

          Lorna

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            Funny you should say that Lorna because this afternoon I put them, along with lots of unwanted clothing in some bags to take to the clothing bank. I am sure somebody somewhere will get a kick out of some of them! Love all your quilts. Maybe the suitcases won't be so heavy when you do eventually relocate next time - although, all those green FQs.... :lol:

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              I am loving all these quilts. Thanks for showing yours Lorna. I like that Show Pin Wall Quilt. I have thought it would be fun to collect those pins and that would be a great place to put them.

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                Lorna, What a good idea for all those pins. Much better to have them out of the drawer where you can see them. I love both of those quilts!
                Lyndhurst, Ohio USA - East Side Suburb of Cleveland, Ohio

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                  Great quilts Lorna

                  Mug rugger and lounge lizard

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                    Lorna -

                    What wonderful quilts! Thanks for sharing! I'm just like you and Marilyn -- I like to try everything and have things at all different stages so I can do whatever strikes my fancy at any time. And I definitely have plenty to choose from right now!! Also, my fun projects tend to get put on hold when I run into something that needs to be made as a gift or has a deadline for some reason. I'm going to have to put my stuff aside soon so that I can make an angel wallhanging for my mom for Christmas and I have a niece who has been really wanting a quilt. Then I want to make a vintage tablecloth quilt for my mom for next Mother's Day (May in the US). So all of the other stuff will go on the back burner again soon and I'll be starting yet more projects. But I love it!!

                    Nancy

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                      Lorna, your quilts are lovely!!! How did I miss them?

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                        Thanks everyone.

                        So far I have the pins grouped by category though I suppose over time they may blend together. Some from the Houston IQF and a couple other shows, pins from guilds I have belonged to and the Bluebonnet Trail quilt shop hops. But then there is also my old Girl Scout pin, pins from the American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly and then a few other commerative ones.

                        As to the name of this topic...this is where I get my motivation to get on with my projects!

                        Lorna

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                          Lorna, I agree with you seeing what everyone else is doing motivates me too. My TQS friends are great inspiration!

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                            OK Lorna---I'm motivated

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                              Looks like everyone has been having fun, whilst I was away at my parents. (I haven't dared look at how many pages I have to catch up with on the Laura Nownes thread yet!)

                              Personally I think something must have been wrong with me, although I went into the LQS, The Nimble Thimble, Buckingham, twice, I didn't buy a single fq :shock: or anything else there. I did get asked to do a teaching 'gig' after I showed off my japanese thimbles though Despite this I still had 2 large bundles & 1 large box (about the size of 2 copier paper boxes) of fabric to bring home, most of which are furnishing fabrics, from when I worked for a furnishing fabric company, and had first dibs on the discontinued samples - about the size of a fq, and display hangings :wink: . For this lot I am planning on making up a load of pieced coverlets* similar in style to the early 19th C medallion ones and see if they can be sold down the road at a local antiques centre.

                              (Pieced coverlets - a pieced top that is simplely lined, with no quilting :wink: )

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                                Welcome home, Rosemary!
                                We missed you,

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