UFOs in my cupboard

So I have another confession... I own a ship load of fabric! I love to fondle it, collect it, and sometimes—if I don’t love it too much—I cut it up! Crazy I know, but that’s just how I am! Before I started Finn and Fox I sewed pretty regularly, but then there would be a few months when my sewing mojo would go missing and I wouldn’t do a thing.

There are a lot of projects that I’ve started but haven’t finished—sometimes because I’ve found another project that excites me more. I’m never good at sticking to one thing. I like to jump from project to project. Which has never really bothered me in the past, but now that I sew as a job (I guess you could call it a job), I don’t have much time for my own sewing anymore. So I thought this month it was time to revisit old UFOs that have been lurking at the back of the cupboard or in that special neatly labelled box ‘Unfinished projects’. Yes, there is a box. So this is a bit of a show-and-tell and maybe if I say it on here, I’ll actually get some stuff completed!

So my goal for this month is to try and spend an hour or two a week on my first UFO – a single bed quilt for Finn. My aim is to try and get the quilt top finished and sewn together. That will give me a good five months to quilt it before he turns two and he’s evicted from his cot.
 

This is a Don’t Look Now pattern called Robot Riot. It uses all raw edge applique which is tricky but fun once you master it and a hell of a lot quicker than doing it by hand. The finished quilt top is going to be very different to the pattern because I couldn’t be bothered raw-edge appliquéing on a million robots. Originally this was going to be a cot quilt, but since Finn is 18 months (Whoops! When did that happen?) I’ve decided that it’s going to be a single bed quilt. I started this when he was first born and I would sew while he slept—often with him passed out on his vibrating chair next to me! I’ll check in next month with my next UFO goal! Have you got any dirty UFO secrets in your stash?