One UFO Completed!

Sponsoring the UFO Challenge with Quilting Gallery has given me the umph to finish up some projects.   Although I have a beautiful shop and plenty of space there to create, there's something about sewing at the dining room table, in the house, cat nearby, tea cup full, and stereo playing: I really prefer it to sewing in the shop.   Here's the catch: I have very little space there to store quilting paraphernalia in the house.  If I want to start a new project there, I have to clear out other projects first.

In order to make room for the Hawaiian applique quilt blocks, I pulled out this project I started in April of 2011.  My friend, Carol Britt, of Batiks Etc. gave me the pattern as a gift and I immediately feel in love with it.  She designed the pattern, the really cool technique for creating the blocks AND (I love this part) it is a quilt-as-you-go project!  What is NOT to like??? Here's the link to her shop and the patterns.

Anyway, it took 1.5 cups of coffee and about an hour for me to FINALLY finish up piecing this table runner this morning.  Max, my kitty, helped which is why it took an hour verses 30 minutes....

 

If it only took an hour to finish up, why did it take over 8 months for me to pick it up and finish?  That's a topic for another day...  Thank goodness for Quilting Is Murder and Quilting Gallery's UFO Quilt Challenge, though: who knows when we'd have this lovely table runner on the dining room table???!!!