Day 12 – Organizing UFOs Part 1
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Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday and your hugs. It was a late night last night, reading condolence cards with Liz, and helping her milk the cow in the dark!! We had quite a few laughs when we also slipped in the mud outside the milking pen, with fresh eggs in our pockets from where the chooks have been laying outside their boxes! We figured Graham would be watching us and hoping we’d fall and scramble those eggs 🙂
So on to organizing UFOs! My first step is to hunt them all up – in boxes, tubs, cupboards, suitcases (oh no! I forgot I have a suitcase out in the caravan… I hope there aren’t any more UFOs out there!!!) and then lay them all out on the biggest table I have….
This pic was taken the last time I attempted to get my UFOs organized, and I’m pleased to say that quite a few of those projects on the table have been completed, but there are a lot that are still UFOs today.
I laid them all out in my studio last month and as the table got too full, I started putting them in tubs:
I also divided them into different types of tubs, like the one above is obviously my Christmas one. The other specific tub that I put UFOs straight into as I sorted was the tub for Flimsies. As much as possible, I put the flimsies in with some backing so that I don’t have to go hunting for that when I go to quilt them.
I tried to make sure I kept patterns with the UFOs, any extra fabric needed, special thread or rulers, and even binding with the flimsies that I had already cut out so that it means there will be less hunting and organizing to do when I actually work on the project.
Once I had them all organized into piles, I … oh, that will be for tomorrow’s post, otherwise I won’t have anything left to write about for the rest of the month!
Hope you are all having a great day,
YIPPEE!! Mine are all neatly corralled, so I get to skip this step. I keep them in a bag or a box, with the pattern, and any specialty rulers or thread. And if I have a flimsy, the binding is pinned to it. In my early days of quilting, I didn’t immediately make the binding, and the fabric accidentally got used for something else. Lesson learned.
When I decided which ufo’s to keep in my move–I also tried to match them to at least backing fabrics and it I had them hand basted, then I pretty much made sure that I had cut strips for the binding and pinned those strips to the quilt–and now here is the funny–I unpinned those strips here to hand quilt the quilt–then couldn’t remember where I put the strips–!!! that’s me!!!
love and laughter, di
I think I have all my flimsies in the one box with their backing…..
We talked about flimsies on the phone yesterday and I’ve counted mine now & have 23. As I’ve quilted 25 quilts so far this year (8 of those were for the local shop), I’m hoping to clean them up by Xmas next year. Have 11 quilty bits to think about & 8 odd UFO’s. Not counted the “woolly” stuff yet. Not sure I’m as organised as you, but maybe you can tell me how I should set it all out. Take care.