WIPs and UFOs

For about a two weeks before the Quiltcon entry deadline I was quilting like crazy, day and night. My house looked like a complete disaster, the laundry was piling up, I was high on creative juices and sleep deprived. Everything was on the back burner except for quilting. Now that the deadline has come and gone, I find myself missing that non-stop quilting rush, so I decided to finally deal with ever growing pile of works in progress (WIPs) and unfinished objects (UFOs). Needless to say, my sewing room was in dire need of organizing and while I plowed through the Quiltcon leftovers I came across several forgotten half done projects. Some of them were what-was-I-thinking kind but some were pretty good and deserved to be finished.

I tackled a pillowcase that only needed binding to be finished. It was my take on the Dresden plate pattern. I used leftovers from a charm pack and quilted it on my at the time brand new sewing machine. It was a test piece that turned out to look pretty good.

Dresden pillow

I also came across a pile of fabric strips left over from a quilt I made eons ago. The fabric felt so soft and silky and although I decided not to start any new projects until I put a serious dent into WIPs I could not resist. I put all the fabrics together, randomly, into a table runner. The result was hideous. They worked so well in a rag quilt I made, but in the table runner, not so much. I had some left over binding, and I bound the table runner nevertheless. The binding pulled all the fabrics together and it look much better. Although not my favorite piece, it fits my eclectic home decor quite nicely.

Leftovers table runner