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Happy New Year!

I am glad I found you to help me finish my UFOs & keep track of WIP & PIGS (thanks for naming those last 2 for me, knitnoid)I am still working on 2 UFOs from 2007. I hopefully will finish Quilter's Garden kit by Thimbleberries (needs binding & tying) next month for my sisterinlaw. I am also machine quilting Construction Zone pattern from Quiltmaker for my 4 year old grandnephew. I started piecing The Very Hungry Caterpillar for younger grandnephew.

I am also working on 2 baby quilts, a 2 sided wall piece/table cloth I designed, a table runner, a jacket, a purse/bag, a lap quilt & a local BOM working on Nancy Halvorsen's Be Attitudes. These are just the UFOs & WIP. There are so many more PIGS, but I won't go there just now.

Now that the busy months are over...let's get sewing. ha ha

sewmary
San Diego

Now that the holidays are over I can start to concentrate on finishing up some more of my ufos again. I will have to go through my bin and pick out the next project.

Ann

A new year and new projects, but first to finish the tractor quilt. I have fabric for Pink Lemonade and Country Lanes but never got a chance to start them last year. Maybe this year LOL

For the newbies...

UFO=Un Finished Object (quilt, or other craft project)

PIG=Project In Grocery bag

PHIB=Project Hidden In Bag/Box

WIP=Work In Progress (higher status then a PIG or a PHIB)

WIM=Work In Mind (thinking about it, haven't started it)

SEX=Stash Enhancing eXpedition (trip to fabric store!!)

FART=Fabric Aquisition Road Trip (extended trip to fabric store)

So here we are in a new year...and the purple horror and the rail fence UFOs are still lurking about...I WILL address these unresolved issues THIS YEAR!

I think I will take a photo of the purple horror, send it to my nephew and his wife...ask them if they want it...if not...maybe I will post photos here and it can go, gratis, to the first bidder...?

As for the rail fence quilt...it began as a comforter cover for DH and me. But I got stuck as to how to make one and the project stalled out. I still love it and want to keep it but am unsure how to quite go about it. OR, I could just make it into a QUILT, rather than a comforter cover, and have done with it!

Other projects, mainly counted cross stitch, I will not go into at this time....gack!

Decisions, decisions...!

CaroleJ Oh honey, I don't think anything Purple could ever be called a horror! LOL I just love love love Purple!!!!!!! And remember what 1 may despise another may just really love. So your nephew & his wife may instantly fall in love with it. I don't know why, but you calling it the purple horror made me laugh. LOL

Hugs

Cathy, watch out...if niece and nephew don't want it....the Purple Horror may come to youuuuuuuu....

Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

When, oh when, will we learn the fate of the "purple horror"? LOL

Oh, shoot...now it's open season on the Purple Horror...I'll have to post photos!

<snort!!>

A comforter cover isn't hard. Make the quilt top the size of the comforter plus at least 1/2" seam allowances (probably more on the end you will leave open).

Make the backing the same size.

With right sides together stitch around it. Leave a generous opening on one end. Trim the corners for ease of turning. You also need to finish the edge of the opening or if you lack fabric, sew a strip on to face the opening. You can put buttons, snaps, hooks or velcro on the cover to close the end .

Take about 4-6" pieces of 1/4" ribbon, woven tape, or double fold bias tape and sew the center of each piece to a corner on the inside of the cover.

Sew the ends of a short piece (4-1 1/2" or 2") of 1/4" ribbon, woven tape, or double fold bias tape diagonally across each corner of the comforter (it is nice to match this with the color of the comforter). With the cover still wrong side out you can tie the two ties away from the opening and turn the cover over the comforter. Then tie the other ties and close the opening.

Without the ties the comforter with shift around.

I made three when I started quilting. The only thing I found was it was very heavy and too hot! I used the one for our bed as a spread without the comforter.



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This is a photo of one corner before the tie is tied. A bow knot is fine and easy to untie to wash the cover.

Thank you, Khoward, for posting these directions! I was thinking about securing the pieced top to another piece of fabric and MQing it to make the top stronger. I don't know...haven't made any decisions about it as yet. But I do appreciate the directions!