My Shame at the Bottom of the UFO Basket

Like most quilters, I have a basket of UFOs or Unfinished Objects, that, for one reason or another, were abandoned before they were completed and just got put away for another day.  I've been making a concerted effort for the last several months to finish the projects in that basket.  I'm now working on the last one.  "The Brownies Quilt" was one of those UFOs and I'm really proud that I finally finished it.  You can see the various posts logging my progress on it. This photo was taken while I was quilting it.

The top of this quilt was pieced, so I sandwiched it, and quilted and bound it fairly quickly.  I call it "Miyoko's Lanterns." When a quilting friend of mine returned to Japan, she sent me several gifts including a Japanese lantern and I sent her back this pattern and a finished block so that she could start a quilt.  I used a sashiko quilting pattern called seven treasures of Buddha.  I've used it before, on one of our son Dan's t-shirt quilts, for instance.

There were two baby quilt tops, one made from some nursery rhyme embroideries that my mother did and some blocks I made to go around them, and one that was a class exercise in log cabin blocks.  These were also quilted and bound.  

But, my shame, at the bottom of the basket, was our daughter Anna's crib quilt. Based on an old Vogue pattern, I'd made one for Dan shortly after he was born, but when Anna came along before Dan was two, I didn't have lots of time for sewing.  I did get the clothes made with the name, birth date and weight embroidered on.

and got the rest cut out. By the time I could get back to it, Anna was climbing out of the crib and we moved her to a junior bed.  The pieces went into a canvas bag and finally to the bottom of the UFO basket.  Out it came, finally, and I decided to buy new fabric for the background, borders, and backing.  I finished the little sunshine pillow sham.

Next I appliquéd the little bird on the top clothesline,

added the little cloud,

made the little kimono,

added the borders and started quilting.

The backing fabric is a conversational print of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

When I finally finish the last of the UFOs, I will update this post.  What a good feeling to complete this work!