The UFO cure

Cancelling the April quilt show this year was a huge disappointment for our Double O Quilters Guild.

Showing off our best stitching every 3 years is one of our highlights. But quilters are resilient. We are still smiling and still stitching.

Before the Corona virus, there was always a new technique to learn and classes to take, and not always enough time to complete each project. The result? UFO’s. Not the ‘unidentified flying objects in the sky’ but the ‘unfinished objects in the closet’ kind.
Some quilters speak with hushed tones of a hidden stash of started projects awaiting attention someday. ‘Someday’ has arrived and we’re confined to home, so it’s UFO time.

I’m never settled if I have more than one unfinished project so there are no UFO’s at my house.

But with fate’s timely intervention, just as isolation was setting in, I inherited a retired quilter’s entire UFO collection.

Now I’m working my way down the pile, creating bags, lap quilts, and other useful items. These will join others being created by quilters for our guild’s outreach program, along with the 160 cloth face masks guild members made for community use.

We’ll never run out of things to sew, and there will always be time to build up a new ‘stash’.