Night at the Quilt Store

Last night was UFO night at the quilt store. While I've never taken any regular classes there, I really enjoy these nights as a way to spend relatively uninterrupted blocks of time sewing, as well as getting to see what other folks are working on and what's new in the world of fabric. We ate and sewed and shopped a little from 5pm to midnight and I got a lot done on the first quilt of 2009.

I also realized that I set no goals or resolutions for this year. I'm not a resolution kind of person, but I do want to set a goal for the year that NO quilt started in 2009 will become a UFO. I've added a list to the sidebar where I will add a list of each project I start. At this point the definition of "start" is going to be when I cut fresh fabric for something that has no parts partially sewn already. I might add that any UFO projects I pick back up have to be completed too, but there's some unsewing intensive stuff in that bin and we all know how fun that is.

The store that hosts these evenings is one of my favorite quilt stores ever. Someday, when I have a shop of my own, it will look remarkably like High Prairie Quilts inside and if I get really lucky I'll find staff as welcoming and helpful. For anyone reading this in the Denver metro area, it's also their Open House sale weekend, with 20% off all the regular priced stuff and 15% off classes. (I'm going back this morning for some fabric.)

This Lone Star is the quilt I'm working on right now, I cut it last weekend so it's the first quilt on that sidebar list. Last night this went from a baggie full of diamonds to what you see below. Two sets of strips are sewn together which is hard to see in the picture. I'm being careful about matching the corners, but not obsessive, so it's going pretty fast. I was 5 pink diamonds short last night, luckily I have another piece of that. I should have known I was short as the blue fabric had to move up the design as I didn't have enough and the pink was also a fat quarter, I just had two.It was an interesting night at home while I was gone quilting, but that's a story for a post AFTER breakfast.