Looking back and looking forward

Sometimes when I don't think I have accomplished anything I like to look back at a milestone and compare where I am today. My stash of quilting thread was my milestone for the year. I reported back in May with an estimate of how much I thought I had. As of Dec. 31, 2010 I figure I used approximately 19,000 yards of quilting thread since May. Here are the May and December pictures. I know I used 5,000 yards just on the Millennium quilt.
May 5, 2010

Dec. 31, 2010


May 5, 2010

Dec. 31, 2010

Looking foward I updated my dry erase board with projects going forward. One of those projects was to make a quilt for a young couple - I work with the man. He was a great help to me re-laminating my kitchen countertops and installing the sink and faucet. He also hauled away some scrap metals and a beer keg that I found on the property. He did this for no pay. For payback I helped them move, but I really didn't have to work very hard - they had a lot of help. When we were putting together the bedroom, they did not have a bedspread. I found the gray and black fabric below for a fantastic price and thought I would like to try it using the first picture below as the inspiration. I don't remember the name of the book I took the picture from. I was halfway thru the quilt top when I thought I should have done some fabric painting first to put some more color in the piece, but we will see what it looks like after it is quilted. I plan on using a different color than black or gray for the quilting.




I did spend some time yesterday (it was a holiday for us from work) quilting another UFO. I am almost done and will post pictures as soon as it is finished. My pile of UFO is slowing coming down, but then I do have about 8 baby quilt tops that need sandwiched and moved on to the quilting process. There is always something to do!