Heading Toward the Finish Line

I'm looking ahead to the end of the year and deciding what I want to have completed by then (quilt wise, anyway).  Ravelry, a web site dedicated to all things yarn based, has at least one group of quilters who also knit.  This group is running a UFO support group for the last quarter of the year, and I'm pledging to work on these UFOs.  I may not get them all completed, but this is the list on which I will concentrate for the remainder of the year.

1. Jenny's First Grand Baby Quilt

This is the only one with a deadline.  The baby is due some time in November.  I asked for direction on the color and/or style that would appeal to her daughter, who I have met only once and when she was a child.  She said "think of Escher in royal tones, like purple, fuchsia and turquoise".  Brights are not my thing, so I will be asking the help of my other friend named Jenny who loves those color combinations.  My vision is triangles and Jenny had another suggestion using the designs from the Sochi Olympics.  We are going to a quilt retreat together next week and since she loves playing with pieces on the design wall and I don't, I expect we'll be spending a lot of time working on this together.

2. Grammy's Blocks #3

The next of the 9 quilts from DH's grandmother's legacy.  I got this one basted today and will work on quilting it this week and early next week.  It's a smallish quilt (about 40" x 60") and won't take long to quilt.  I have already completed two of these of a similar style and size.

3. Grammy's Blocks #9

This is the last of the quilt blocks that have not yet been pieced into a top.  I will work on this at the quilt retreat next week and get this last top done.  There will be 6 tops of a similar style using 9-patch blocks DH's grandmother made.  These are destined to be gifts for her 6 great grandchildren.  My plan is to have these completed by July of 2019 in time for a family wedding of one of the great granddaughters.

4.  Grammy Quilt #4

This is top #1 of the 9-patch quilts.  I am planning to have this quilted and bound by the end of the year.

5. Tumbler Quilt

These tumbler patches are a set that I won in a UFO auction some years ago.  It's time to either complete the top of get rid of it.  These will go the the quilt retreat with me where there is a design wall and people who like to play with placement.  I don't know if I can get the top assembled, but I can at least get the design and a good start on piecing it together.

6. Left Over Stars

I was in charge of the group who created a raffle quilt for my guild two years ago.  Members of the quilt were asked to make either a 9" star block or a 9" 9-patch block with supplied fabric.  We had just enough 9-patch blocks, but 16 extra star blocks that didn't make it into the finished design.  We pulled names of those who contributed to the quilt and I won  the remaining blocks.  I want to have these put into a quilt by the end of the year.  I will probably use a similar design as the original raffle quilt, but haven't given it much thought yet.  The raffle quilt can be found here towards the bottom of the post.

Oh, and did I say that there would be more progress on Ladies of the Sea this time?  Yes, but not much.  I think I got 8 leaves sewed onto the next block.  That is the current evening project now that a few other distractions are out of the way.  I'll show those next time.