How many quilts can a quilter quilt?

Looks like it is almost time for a quiltathon!  

I was avoiding cleaning my sewing workspace again

so I counted the flimsies, yikes!

1 Alien landing 

2 Strippy Gardens

3 blue quilts

4 quilts for family

I think I am channeling the 12 days of Christmas !

The family quilts are all queen size!

There is a lot more members of the quilts in waiting

club but they chose to remain anonymous!

These are the quilts with loose deadlines and 

homes to go to. 

Quiltathon here I come!

I have a quite a few backs made so once the work table is

cleared off , batting can be cut and pinning can commence!

I think this will be a great To-Do! and monthly 

goal too. I will just have to watch for 

those Distractions! A room full of endless 

possibilities can be a real Siren call.

Stay safe and sew on!

Linking up with :

Design Wall Monday

Monday Making

Patchwork and Quilts

Wait Loss Wednesday

Midweek Makers

Can I get a Whoop Whoop!

Finished or not Friday!

Off the wall Friday!

UFO Busting

OMG

Blast from the past!

 Anybody else like sampler quilts?

When I first started quilting, I bought a lot of sampler patterns. 

They seemed like good value since they included 

multiple block patterns.  

This is one that was completed back in 2014!

I sent it to a recent empty nester. The blocks are 

a combination of hand and machine quilted. 

All are machine pieced.  It was a UFO , partially complete

that was anonymously gifted to me. 

Sampler quilts always seem to hold a surprise or two.

Notice this block?

Quite different than all the current " disappearing " 

patterns in use now!

Like many of my UFOs , this one had a few

challenges but they were all size related. 

I solved them with careful trimming and 

a narrow variable width sashing!

The next time I get stateside, I will have to 

check its condition!

Samplers appeal to me since they are 

basically a technique and pattern tester. 

If you discover you really like one block , 

you can make a whole quilt of it and 

already have the pattern! 

I am not sure if I ever did that!

A few more sampler quilts showed up 

in my dig thru photos. Thank you big brother 

google for making me explore

 ( you are out of space, archive ~~archive!) 

They may get even their own posts one day! 

Way back in the last century!

1999!

This one is a group wedding quilt

for a co-worker.  I did demos for 

a few of the blocks and other contributors 

found their own patterns.

Gifted in 2012.  

 

One more co-worker quilt.

 I must have really liked them to 

keep making them quilts!

Circa 1996!

Stay safe and sew on !