Guild swap is no longer a UFO

In December 2021 our local guild did a fun challenge - Adopt a UFO.  Anyone wanting to participate would put a UFO (started or not) into a gift bag or box, so it couldn't be viewed.  We drew numbers to determine the order we got to choose a bag.  See my post about it HERE.

Even though we couldn't see what was in the bag before choosing, mine held a miniature quilt kit that had been purchased and then abandoned without being started.  And it was all 30s reproductions and English Paper Piecing.  

I made 9 of the 12 stars, all hand pieced, and then appliqued them onto muslin squares. Then I added the skinny yellow and lavender borders.  It stalled out at that point for a year.  Or maybe more than a year.  I finally decided I would NEVER get all that tiny applique of flowers and vines done, so I added a purple 30s print for a border.  That's about the time I decided to hand quilt it.  

The center section was easy enough to hand quilt - outline each star, add some lines through the star points, and then outline each square.  This was definitely a project that I started and stopped over and over again.  But finally, almost exactly 4 years from the "adoption" I decided to kick it into high gear and finish this little project.  

It's actually done!   My version of Granny's Stars is only 25" square.  I think it turned out very cute, and will probably hang in my sewing room to remind me to persevere.  And look!! We actually got a dusting of snow.  It was only 11 degrees BELOW zero out on the deck when I took this picture yesterday morning.  

And since the last stitches have gone into one UFO, I've begun the quilting on another.  

This UFO is going to be machine quilted, and I have a good start to it.  It's the Dresden Plate block that I used as a demo for Sew Vintage a couple years ago.  The partial Dresden Plate is the skirt on a girl wearing a bonnet.  This block became the starting point for last year's Stay At Home Round Robin.  It's wall hanging size.