UFO Wednesday Link -up

I almost forgot that it was UFO Wednesday. Thanks to Pam in KC, I got a reminder.
I must have been too excited to get my Quilts taken down to Pendleton and writing my Design Wall Monday and Get it DONE posts this week.

It's a good thing when the project doesn't get put into a tote at my house and become a UFO. I have way too many of those.  See THIS POST.  I had a bit of trouble trying to locate them all to put in one photo.  I didn't get this one included in the photo that day. I finally got all the DIES I needed to make the Applique Blocks. Now I decide on the pretty colors. Fabrics shown may or may not be found in the finished quilt 

Today, in keeping with my GOALS from yesterday...I'm getting out my Go BABY fabric cutter and playing with the BABY Girl Quilt for Brant and Tina. It is a COPYCAT of the one Tina fell in Love with from the McCall's Quilt Design Star Contest I was in.  This was the Challenge 2 Quilt made with 9 of the 10 Fat Quarters given to us by McCall's. HERE is a link to the big REVEAL post from 2011. It shows the process of how I made the original. Doesn't it just look like SPRING?!!!!

My quilt for this Grand-daughter will be a proto-type for my Go-Friendly pattern that  I hope to submit to the ACCUQUILT Co using the Go Baby.  Using the BABY Go Cutter that I got from the Sponsors of the McCall's Contest will make it easy for me to get it all cut out. I'm choosing bright colors and using Fusible for the applique. I want to quilt it like Natalia did for me.  It was worth the $$ for me to have it quilted by the daughter of the FIRST WINNER of the McCall's Quilt Design Star Contest. They BLOG together and show a lot of fun projects HERE.
I know I'm a Broken record ---but I really hope to have a NEW quilting arrangement by the time I get ready to quilt these 2 Baby Quilts.  For now, I can only quilt like Natalia in my dreams...

Click HERE to see the other Quiilting Bloggers who have linked up their UFOs this week.

"Quilting by Committee"

It's Quilt Week in Paducah!   The Winners have been announced and HERE is the Link

This beautiful Wednesday I am still playing with ideas for the final treatment of the Mariner's Compass Quilt.
Thanks for all the comments from Monday's Post.  I think this is called "Quilting by Committee".
The quilt talked to me as I laid it out on the floor. Placed fabrics beside the center and took the pictures. I had to turn it on-point, it's just another way of viewing it.  The process is a good one to put it out there and take time to ponder what works best for this quilt.  I had to share it with the future owner of this quilt too and got some insight to how I will get it quilted when it is finally ready for that.

The center was trimmed and the pinwheel borders are on.  Success is good when the borders that are planned - work! Now it is time for the MATH.  I'm hoping to get out to visit Lynn @ Thread and Bolts today.  Her MATH is better than MY Moses Lake MATH... As you can see I'm adding the solid triangles to make this bigger before the final borders.

The first try with my MATH doesn't look like it is quite right.  I hope to press out more of those wrinkles. 

 I should have paid more attention in those MATH classes.  

Someone should have told me then that Quilting included MATH. HaHaHa.

As for the Secret Project I mentioned it is for the Quilt Alliance. I have the design figured out and found part of a UFO to make it.  They extended the Deadline to June 1st. Check it out HERE.

Thanks always for the kind comments and suggestions- most days, I couldn't quilt without you...
Linking up to Judy's Wednesday UFO Report HERE