Fanciful Quilts

It's been a very long time since I sat down on New Year's Eve and made a list of resolutions.  At the end of each year, I'd look for the list and it was nowhere to be found - thankfully.  Such high hopes for the new year...only to be lost along the way a few months later. So...simple goal.  Yes, I can do simple. UFQs....lots of them.  Pieced tops waiting to be quilted.  Lots and lots of them.  Pieced quilts.  Appliqued quilts.  Panel quilts.  Did I happen to mention lots and lots of quilt tops???   Okay - game on.   Here's January's.... Every quilt has a story.  It's what makes quilts so fascinating.   This one is made of a block swap  .... an online Yahoo group ..... and darn if I remember when that swap took place but I know it was a long time ago.  If memory serves me right, the block is "Prairie Queen".  Now you and I both know that a single solitary block may have more than one name.  Another fascinating aspect of quilting

  2018?  What the heck happened to 2017???? Let's see....lots of decluttering happened.   Quilting Studio finally reorganized.  It will always be in a state of reorganization.  I can't help it.  I am a storage junkie.  Is there a 12 step program available???  I'll be the first to sign up. In the decluttering stage, I foolishly tossed quite a few UFQs...(that's Unfinished Quilts for those who don't know I'm not a fan of "UFOs").  Never ever ever declutter while in a state of unhappiness.     And as for the 2017 no buy....I did quite well, thank you.  I purchased backing and some FQs for  an online yahoo quilter's bingo game.  That's it.  Honest!   And so the latest off the quilting frame is a project that was ONLY three months late.  It will go in the mail today .... Despite all, I was quite pleased with it.  However, I have to divulge that one must NOT attach borders without giving thought to it.  Yes, we had a bit