OOo...fun icons on my side bar...

well, now I'm feeling almost "me" again (there's still a piece of me missing, but hopefully it will be home soon) I realize I have some personal challenges to catch up on!!  YIKES!   It's amazing how quickly we can fall behind on goals we set for ourselves, whether it's because we are tending to everyone else's needs or lack of self confidence, it happens quickly and very hard to catch back up.

But I'm going to make that effort to catch up!

I have the Christmas Project Group and the UFO group to re-evaluate my goals.  So, it's a new month and here are my goals for this month based off my group challenges.  Need to find some kind of reward for myself if I do this - any suggestions?  Something up to $50.

UFO Challenge

I'm 3 months behind, though I think most of my UFO's are mostly started, so I can make them up---I think.  Here's the ones I will add to this month's goals:




As for my Christmas Projects, here are 4 I'll set as goals for April (of course the easy ones):





Whew...I guess I need to get sewing ASAP!!!  Any wagers on how many I'll complete?

UFO Challenge #4

Well Ms. Nancy did her magic and picked out #4 for January's UFO for the month.

That is this:



More details.....I took part of a swap in 1999 (yeppers, this project is over 10 years old!) where we picked out background fabric out and selected a block.  Mailed out our fabric and the swappers added theirs.  I ended up with 16 blocks and made a few more extras to make this quilt larger for my husband who is a big University of Tennessee fan.  I had to redo a lot of the blocks and then when I started putting the rows together, I got so frustarted with how the blocks weren't lining up, I just put this project away.  I'm still embarressed by how it lays out on the design wall, but at this point I just want it done and pray my longarmers can do magic for it to lay down flat.  So basically all I need to do is finishing sewing the rows together, add a the top/bottom inner borders pieces and an outer border.  I already have the backing and enough orange for the binding.   I should be able to knock this UFO out quickly.

UFO Challenge 2010

I've found a challenge I know I can work with.  While I have well over 50 projects in plastic zip-loc bags, it's overwhelming to go through them and document, so Ms. Nancy has offered a UFO Challenge by selection 10 UFO's and listing them.  She will randomly pick a number beginning of each month and that is the UFO you work on!  Sounds like an excellent plan.

Here's a picture of my corner that is directly behind my sewing machine area.  This is where I stack my UFO's in bags.  It was fun going and randomly picking out 10 projects.



Here are my 10 projects.  I tried to pick several that are very old.









I have place all these UFO's in a seperate plastic bin and will pull them out as their number is drawn.  Now to see what one Nancy asked us to work on this month....more on that tomorrow :)