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It seems I always have several UFOs around me (unfinished projects, as the quilting world calls them). Last month I felt that my sewing room was out-of-control-I-can't-even-sit-there-and-work messy, so I started tackling some of the smaller unfinished projects I had just to clean off a table. So yes, Bobby got to reclaim some pants that have been sitting there for a while waiting for various types of repairs, which I hate because I never feel like I do a good job.

Anyway, while cleaning off one of my work tables, for some reason I decided I needed to open a box of cut pieces for a quilt top that I've not worked on in quite some time. I finished cutting the material for the last section of piecing, realized I didn't have quite enough material, and so had to create a very quick Plan C  (plan B was back when I started this project and deviated from the original quilt pattern...WHY do I do that to myself?)

So here we are a few years later...

This was supposed to be a building block (see the blocks between the stars?) but as I tried to figure out fabric placement, I kept seeing stars, so I tossed the directions and made my stars. Thanks to youtube, I was able to figure out how to piece the stars together with the blocks (Y seams...not quite so bad). Now I just need to figure out how I want to quilt it.

And I still have a box of fabric. Turns out making stars doesn't require as many cuts of fabric as the building blocks pattern requires, so I have half a box of stars still waiting for the next burst of "let's semi-finish something!" I'm thinking they'll get either a pale yellow, denim, or pale blue background. The purple was nice, but I'm ready for something different. But it will have to wait. My niece IS graduating in a few weeks (as opposed to NEXT year when she was supposed to graduate!) so I'm trying to finish a twin size quilt before her graduation the end of this month. 

Crazy me. I actually thought this was going to be the year I wasn't rushing to finish a quilt in May. I almost made it!
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