UFO Challenge catch-up

Catching up on my UFOs from this past years challenges from the AuSable Quilt Guild.

 I am finally working to get catch up on quilting my UFO challenge quilt tops that I pieced during the challenge months.  UFO number six was a pink baby string quilt. I had no one in mind when I decided to make this quilt a couple years ago.  I'm trying to use my stash and these fabrics were extra from previous quilts. I joined a string quilt group a few years back, but the group fell apart after a couple months.  This baby quilt was one of the string quilt projects I was working on.  

Hooray, I finally quilted it this week.  Plus, as always,  I made a matching tote.  I found an orange fox stuffed animal that matches the little fox in the fabric so a little gift basket is starting to fill up.

The main fabric has woodland animals with flowers and leaves so I quilted a leaf design.  This quilt will be stashed away for a future gift.

On that note -  I found out this past couple weeks that we have a new grandchild on the way this May.  And to top that off, my niece just found out that she is expecting a little one this June.  Our little family is growing.  And how fun that our babies are all within a few years old of each other.  I can see fun times ahead.

My Husqvarna Sapphire sewing machine was having power issues and was due for its yearly cleaning and update.  So for the past couple weeks while its been in for repairs I've resorted to using my older Husqvarna/Viking sewing machine.  I forgot what a champ it is.  It sews through things like butter.  I don't recall exactly how long I've owned it.  I bought it used in the early 90s.  I paid $100 for it back then which I thought was a little pricey, but it was a lot more affordable than a new sewing machine and had features I liked.  

I searched online to see if I could find the date of this machine and I found that people were selling the same model for $150 now.  There were also a few that were being sold with missing parts.  My machine has all its original parts and hums happily along.  It's not computerized and has metal parts.  Out of curiosity when I pick up my Sapphire sewing machine I asked if they can tell me the year of my this older sewing machine.  The repair man told me that it's dated to the mid 70s.  Using it this past couple weeks reminds me to never let it go.  I love this sewing machine.

In the meantime, I have another UFO challenge quilt on my quilt frame ready for its debut, hopefully I'll be back tomorrow.