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Monday, December 30, 2013

GIVEAWAY New Years Day

I haven't done a giveaway in ages and I've certainly got lots to give away.

I'm going to give away a couple of pattern books.

To win, all you need to do is count up how many UFOs you've completed this year.  That's only quilts that you'd started, put down and then picked up again. That does not include quilts you started and finished all the way through.  I personally am the queen of ufos. I get so bored so easily I have to put things down for a while.  I do enjoy finishing a ufo, though. Just takes me a while!

Let me know how many and the two or three with the highest numbers win!! I'll go through all the comments on Wednesday, Jan 1st.  Please be sure to include your email address.

Happy New Year to everyone,

Randy

25 comments:

  1. Well, I'm out of the running already! LOL I really don't have UFO's until now, I have three, so far I have been pretty good about eventually finishing them because they are always gifts! My quilts for myself keeps getting pushed to the back burner.

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  2. i have 2 and don't have the mojo to finish them, most of mine are for people so i have to finish

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  3. Okay, Randy, clarify for me. By "finish", do you mean quilted and bound, or does a finished flimsy count? : )

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  4. I went through my finishes for the year and was surprised to find that only 7 of them were UFOs--and most of those were minis. My Barrister's Block SAL was only a flimsy finish, I completely finished one lap quilt UFO from about 3 years ago, and 5 minis and table toppers from the past 2-3 years. I've counted about 15 UFOs in my bins and boxes--I am determined to get about half of them at least to flimsy stage this year!!

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  5. I'm out ... I finished 1/2 of ONE of my UFO's ... sewing down the binding on a quilt I started 12 years ago ... how sad is that!!

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    1. Finishing a quilt that you started 12 years ago?? YOU"RE A WINNER!! Send me your snail mail address for your prize!!

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  6. I finished 3 UFO's this year. Considering I was in a 4 year slump and just started sewing again last July, I'm pretty happy with that!

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  7. I finished 3 UFO's this year. Considering I was in a 4 year slump and just started sewing again last July, I'm pretty happy with that!

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  8. Eeek! I've a grand total of ONE! lol But I would surely be the winner if you asked how many ufo's we've CREATED this year! HA!

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  9. I have finished about 8 ufos this year so far. I have three more waiting for the binding that I plan to get done by New Years Day.

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  10. I've done 11 so I could be in the Country Threads Challenge drawing (one a month). Since they went ahead and chose a winner already, I quit working on number 12. There is only one more pass on the long arm and the binding, but I know I won't finish it by midnight tomorrow!!!

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  11. I guess I cannot win because I have finished up many flimsies but they are waiting to be quilted. I am hoping to get a new, bigger longarm quilter. Need to have lots of tops to practice with. Thanks for sponsoring a giveaway.

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  12. I finished 23 this year and I hope to do 30 more in 2014. Considering I had a little less than 100 at the beginning of 2013, this really isn't that many. I didn't start 23, so I am making progress - right?

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  13. I have finished 3 this year, but resolve to finish ufo's in 2014, it's going to be my motto to use my stash and fish UFO's for 2014. After that shop

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  14. I have lots of starts....finishes not so much :0)
    2014 is another year for more tries at finishing.

    Happy New Year!

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    1. I think I have finished 6 UFOs this year and have about 13 left to go. I've decided that 2014 is going to be the Year of Nothing New. That's right--it's going to be boring as anything but I'm ONLY working on old projects in the coming year. I have put all my UFOs in a stack on my sewing table, in full view, and I call it my Pile of Shame. I have a Grandmother's Fan quilt top in there that I pieced in 1982--that one's getting done next! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  15. I have finished 6 UFO's this year and a couple of quilts I made from start to finish without several years in between :)

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  16. I'm not going to say except that I LOVE MY LIST. :):):) Did really well with it in 2013 so I'm starting a new list in 2014, of course, Terri C. will be monitoring it for me, love her.

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  17. Oh my, Debra Dodge, I guess I need to see this "new" list for 2014, cause I was so envious of your 2013 list and how much you got done, well, let's just say, I'm not going to show you my list. Randy, Debbie, doesn't have a "UFO". So, count her out. She finished all of them. And Terri C. both of us will be monitoring Debbie's list. How's your list, Randy?

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  18. I managed to finish only 2 UFO in 2013; one was a challenge that had to be finished by May and the other one was my Pink Lemonade sew-along with Lori - that I finished (hand quilted and binding) in December 2013.

    Hope to finish more UFO in 2014; the list it too long to write.

    Happy New Year to you and your family!

    Carole Y from lilacbus021 at gmail dot com

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  19. I thought that UFO meant an unfinished quilt. I've learned (on another blog) that any start on a new quilt (no matter how small a start it is) count as a UFO. I've been very sad since then because I have the habit of doing a few blocks when I get a new idea or an inspiration for a quilt, you know, just to try it out, see what it looks like and if it's worth (pretty enough) the time to do such a quilt. Well, I now have 13 UFO :( The oldest one is from 1988 YIKES!!
    I still have all the fabric to finish it... one day LOL.
    Have a productive quilty time in 2014 with much joy and health to you and yours.

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  20. I not a list maker so had to think what UFO's quilts I had finish this year, Steamer Trunk Treasures, one of the Prairie Women's Sewing Circle quilts and a Kansas Troubles Spider quilt. Several UFO tops got sewn together and are ready to be quilted. I have started making a 2014 list of UFO quilts that need maybe a block or border added. Thanks for getting us to think about our UFO's!

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  21. I completed 6 UFO"S in 2013, as we had our bi-annual quilt show in October. The oldest one completed was from 2006. I probably have at least another 50. I think I am the queen of UFO'S, as I love to start new projects when I see them, and then I get back to them when the time is right. I have had a few that "like a great wine", needed to age till they were ready. Some of them had me "stuck" on how to finish them, borders/quilting, and then I pull it out , and lightening strikes, and I "know how to finish it. I enjoy everyone of them. I think I have only had 2 that I thought afterwards "what was I thinking", those go into the donation pile when done.

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  22. Only 3 finished! Working too much in 2013!

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  23. I haven't been reading for a while so I missed the 'contest', but I have to say, Randi, if you're the queen of UFOs then I must be the princess, or maybe the dowager queen -- I have a large plastic bin filled with things I swear I'm going to complete before I die... lol! I guess I'm also easily bored or else I have no focus because my favorite project is always the NEXT one! I'm still working on the Phone Guy's Wife -- have the blocks done but I have to sew the top together. Hope to do that in 2014. I have one major finish this year, DDs quilt is at the long-armer as of 12/28/13. Should be back in a couple of weeks and bound by the end of January. That is a record for me for anything larger than a lap quilt -- only 16 months from start to potential finish. :-)

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