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2021 PHD Challenge
Have you decided that this is finally the year you clear up those unfinished projects of the past? Join in the fun, and earn your PHD in completing those projects half done! Here are the 6 rules:
- List limited to 6 projects for the year ( average 2 mo. per project)
- Ufo projects only ( must be already started)
- You must have the pattern, fabrics, backing ,and batting for completion on hand
- Photos of each unfinished piece must be posted after your list.
- Make a list of what is left to do below each project's name (eg: quilt, bind, etc..)
- ☆ optional...tell us why a project has " stalled"... do you need help? Etc.
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Comment by Elizabeth Phillips on October 11, 2021 at 10:10am
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Riana, I loved the modern look of the quilt you made for the theatre group. I hope that they do well on their fundraiser.
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Comment by Riana Noyes on October 11, 2021 at 8:42am
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Dee, l love your persistance getting those borders to cooperate. Sometimes the fabric is just a bit unstable. I notice now that many patterns are written specifying borders be cut on the lengthwise grain rather than cross cut. This will quilt up beautifully. I am a volunteer longarm quilter for our QOV , and enjoy seeing the talents of the makers as they're on my frame.
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Deanna, I'm so sorry you have had issues with the heat and now cooler temperatures and allergies. I made good use of the a/c this summer and had my balcony door open lots of the time. Now, I still try to have the door open for some time during the day to get fresh air. I notice the difference the litter box makes in a small enclosed space.
Your QOV is really spectacular. I haven't worked on one in recent times because we have not been able to meet. I like the other projects I am doing. They keep me busy.
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Comment by Deanna Davis on October 10, 2021 at 11:04am
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I have been pretty quiet over here -- The heat has been so intense, and after my surgery in April I did get a cover over my deck to help with heat / sun coming in my door on the west side of my room. My neighbor had taken down a tree in his backyard that shaded my deck / door with windows into the room - I couldn't even breathe in there even with my ceiling and tower fan going. So, fall is finally coming but that presents another problem. Swimming and cool air + ragweed in the mornings has given me a cough & chest congestion -
but -- I did finally finish something !! Announcing - the three year QOV .. Karen loaned me this pattern so I could do it for our group - I actually started tracing the man at my son's house the year Elise turned 1 .. started it on our last sew day before the pandemic shut everything down. One girl did the star section, one girl cut out my letters, I did the flag section, another sewed the letters on the bottom half, I did the man and assembled it all. I had the borders on and they were wavy when I finally took it to a retreat to lay it on the floor. So, off with the borders, remeasured, recut, resewn, only to remove them again .. and again, remeasured, recut and redone .. and now .. KAREN, a huge thank you.. I know whoever gets this will truly appreciate it ..
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Wilma, my grandsons loved bunny and kitty towels when little, but granddaughter would've loved a dragon,lol.
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That dinosaur towel is so cute! And it is the happiest one I've ever seen. Today I haven't decided what I'll do yet. It is a nice day. I think I'll take a walk to the grocery store.
Macska is getting to be such a cuddly cat. It sure is better with his nails clipped. It is so funny how he wants to be on the table when I eat. He tries to get near my food and I have to keep putting up my arm to keep him away. He tries to sneak under and over and around my arm but I don't let him through. Then, when I read the paper, he sits on it and rolls around and I turn the page and he has to get his place on the new page. He's eating well and hasn't been sick for a while, but he won't eat wet food at all. I am feeding him Iams now and he likes it.
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Comment by Wilma Schirra-Kays on October 6, 2021 at 12:54am
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No Riana, I finished the binding this year, in fact the day I posted it. I was a year off….think I was tired (old too. Lol). Finished a cute hooded towel for great nephew’s 3rd birthday….he is really into dinosaurs…but his grandma said it had to be a happy one…
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Nice friendship quilt, Wilma, a keepsake for sure ( if you did the binding in 2020, you got it done last yr.). Adding signatures this year is a " bonus", lol.
Still finding pieces with holes to applique over on dd's restoration wedding ring project, sigh. I think l'll start hand quilting it, then continue to repair as l come to a spot that needs it, just for a change of pace. Also still working on needlepoint, and decided to do 2 more travel quilt blocks ...but today l took the day off for golf :-))
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Wilma, really nice heart quilt! It will be a Good Friends quilt when your Featherweight group members sign it.
I watched a movie last night with Melissa McCarthy "The Starling" and it was very moving - about a couple who lost a child and how they recover.
I'm working on piecing "Asian Beauty" and I'm ready to cut a backing for my next quiltie.
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Well I finished a PHD. It was from the prior year’s list. I know I will not get grandson’s t-shirt quilt finished this year (too much to do, so will make it a 2022 project). This one was started/finished in 2018, quilted in 2019 and bound in 2020. It was a friendship quilt my Featherweight group made. So, now that I am moving, I will have my current Featherweight group sign it.
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Thank you, Riana. I do belong to the Canadian Panel Club but ideas for panels that run long horizontally are scarce. Most panels are skinny and long.
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Liz, l just sent you my " beautiful borders" board...it has a section called ' borders for panels'...lots of ideas. I thought you belonged to a fb group all about panels? No ideas there?
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Thank you, Ginny. I had forgotten the name of that site. I found at pattern called Fox Tracks Quilt that gives the panel some length.
Today is my dental consult appt. The challenge will be to find the office. It's in a part of town I haven't been much.
Then, I can relax and quilt. (Oh yes, the bread - got to buy some).
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Comment by Ginny Andersen on October 1, 2021 at 5:15pm
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Elizabeth, Bear Creek Quilting has loads of free patterns to put with panels! Check them out!
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I have been looking for a pattern to finish a 44x35 panel. I need something on the top and bottom of the panel. anyone have any ideas for me? I have 3 panels the same size all ready to go.
Riana, maybe you have something for me in your "unique settings" section?
There must be some free patterns somewhere. I am ready to machine quilt another quiltie. That is the name the guild calls these small quilts. The Australian magazine calls them "quiltlets". I have lots of Australian mags from the garage sale - all just like brand new. They use different colours, a lot of applique, and medallion layouts - I notice. I am thinking of using bits of their patterns for my little quilts.
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Now that l've recovered my design wall, l can go ahead and get the travel quilt organized for layout. I found my layouts l liked...glad l saved them on my pinterest board " unique settings".
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I'm finishing a little quilt this evening. It has doggies on it and is 26x26. I'll take a picture when I get it done. Tomorrow is a national holiday in Canada - Truth and Reconciliation Day. We will remember the Indigenous children who lie in unmarked graves on residential school properties. Jim and Lisa are coming over to have breakfast with me. We are supposed to wear orange in solidarity but I don't have anything in my wardrobe. It is a sad holiday - like Remembrance Day on Nov. 11.
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This week l'll be looking up my ideas for settings for the travel quilt. I had a few ideas saved on my old tablet, but can't seem to bring up the photos, so l'm scouring my pinterest boards for fresh ideas. Meanwhile, l plug away at the needlepoint whenever it's nice out ( better light out on deck). I'm closing in on the last section.
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Wilma, I look at the Shabby Fabrics posting almost every day and I would love to do one. I tell myself once I get the UFOs under control - but that will never happen. I bought some more fabric: so there go the numbers.
I finished sewing all the blocks for the Scrap Basket Blues. The blues and browns are in all the wrong places when I pieced the last block. Just used what was cut. Now to press them. I unpick the threads after cutting the blocks apart so the furl is easy-peasy.
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Chris, love your block. I just started Shabby Fabrics BOM “Too Cute to Spook”. Put together part f first block, but will miss several as they are being sent to SIL house. Will catch up when we move.
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