Finished a UFO

 This week I finished a UFO. It only needed binding and that's all it needed for the past month. But it is finally finished and the label is on. I don't consider it finished if the label is not on it. Unfortunately I finish it one day after my two week reign as Queen of UFOs ended. So I will need to send a Fat Quarter to the winner of the next quarter. (or this quarter) I guess I better find that out. 

The fabric is from a set of charm packs that felt rather manly. It is for a man after all and I didn't want any thing flowery.  I found a pine cone and pine needle E2E pattern from Wild Flower quilting and used that quilt it with. The backing is hunter green and this time I matched the bobbin thread to the back. I then used a neural thread color for the top.  I hadn't used mismatched color before. I bound it with a dark brown solid fabric using a slightly wider binding.

This throw quilt is for a friend of the family. Sort of a surrogate grandfather to my kids. I wish I had finished it last week. That way I could have given it to him at church. He is in a wheel chair, after having his leg amputated a little while back. He has just started coming back to church. Last Sunday, the Chapel was really cold. This made it so he needed to leave early. This Sunday I will have the quilt for him. 

This has me thinking about making throw quilts to keep in the chapel at church. Most of our congregation are older. If there were a few throw size quilts on the back pew where you enter, they could grab one and hopefully be comfortable. It would be easy enough to zip up some simple patchwork from all of the 5" charm packs I have. The backing and batting would be the bigger issue. I am not made of money after all.

I will have to think on this a little bit.

What are you working on?