Some will focus on inventory, while others will focus on one of the three R's (resume, rehwork, rehome). I hope you will take the time to visit the rest of the UFOvember bloggers this month. All the rest have me itching to fire up the sewing machine, so it's all good! I'll let go of the one project I really don't like anymore, give some thought to rehoming one, and resign myself to finishing the butterflies. It turns out the stuff lurking in my UFO pile may be taking up space, as Bobbie wrote, but looking through the projects has actually recharged my energy instead of using it up. Well, I'm not sure my inventory has been terribly helpful for you, but it has helped me get a grip on what's lurking in the bins. I'm sure the winter blues will need to be chased away sometime in the next few months, and these sunflowers will be the perfect project to help with that. I'm going to save it for when I need some down time again. However, I do love it and I know just how I want to quilt it. Meeting deadlines took precedence this year as I work to build my design business. It is, as so many of my tops are, a casualty of my pattern sewing. I had expected to have it quilted by now, and I'm sorry it's in the UFO pile. These curvy sunflowers from Sew Kind of Wonderful using their mini quick curve ruler were on my "want to make" list for a long time and I treated myself in March, when the pandemic hit and I needed some down time. What are you up to on this fine December day? It hasn't progressed past the end of August! What can I say, things got busy here even if the blog hasn't been! As you can see on the design wall, my temperature quilt is in serious need of attention. That's been in the plans for months now, and I just need to stop thinking about it and just make it. Next up after that is a tutorial on using paper templates with rotary cutters. My stop on the tour is this Friday, so I'm not late yet. You can see it on the table, waiting patiently. First on the list is finishing the binding on my quilt for the Love and Kisses blog hop. I feel refreshed and ready to attack a long list of sewing and pattern writing tasks. I, however, am thrilled with the changes. She's sighing a lot and giving me dirty looks. She seems to not be happy that it has moved, and she is spending more time on the chair, under the printer, or just random spots on the floor as you see above. There's room for Rosie's bed, but she is not a fan of change. It also fits exactly along the length of wall, as though it was meant to be. The shelving isn't fancy, or super pretty, but it is tidy and organized and affordable. Maybe I'm not the only one trying to tidy up and organize my space before winter and cabin fever sets in. They were sold out on several sites I searched. I was able to order two more shelving units to match my existing ones, though that took a bit of online browsing. The part I'm even more excited about is the extra wall space liberated for added shelving. I now have access to 3 1/2 sides of the table for cutting and basting. It turned out the table fits in the center just fine. I waited until daylight Thursday morning to actually start hauling the furniture around. I measured on Wednesday evening, and informed my half-awake husband of all of my fine new plans at 12:30 a.m. I never actually tried it or measured to see. I always assumed it was too big and would make moving about the room awkward. Ha! I don't know why I didn't try this before. Plus, once you figure out this technique, you can use it for other templates that may not have a ruler substitute. You could also use specialty rulers for this particular shape, but not everyone has the budget for those. To demonstrate, I'll use the templates shown below from my Stellar Breeze pattern. I can tape the template to my ruler and use the straight edge of the ruler to rotary cut a nice, clean edge. However, as long as the shape doesn't involve curves, there's an easier way, as I learned from Judy Martin's book Stellar Quilts when I made the quilt above seven years ago. If instead I trace around a paper shape with a rotary cutter, I tend to end up with a gradually smaller template as I accidentally shave a little off the template, which is also problematic. I'm not a fan of tracing paper templates onto fabric and cutting out the shapes with scissors. My Clear Skies quilt from 2013, from the pattern Kyoto Garden by Judy Martin in her book Stellar Quilts. Every now and then I want to make a quilt that uses shapes with angles that are not marked on my quilting rulers.
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