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UFOs (unfinished objects) are common among quilters. Many people mention having over 100 UFOs! Some quilters may have only a few, but it’s rare to find one with none.

My goal for 2021 is to finish all my UFOs and release any I may decide that aren’t worth the time and expense. I need to face the issues with the patterns and my color choices. It’s time to boost my motivation to complete the ones with fabrics that no longer inspire me – those are the hardest to finish. I’m choosing one of four options for each UFO:

Get it done!
Make a smaller quilt
Re-stash the fabric
Give the UFO to someone who wants to finish it.

Quilts comfort people like no other object can. This is reason enough to complete them and share them with the world.

The quilt was a UFO on my shelf for years, but I finished it today. I won’t make this pattern again, but I’m happy with the mitered corners on the border fabric I used. I’m really thrilled to have it done before another Christmas passed by.

I think only another quilter, or maybe a carpenter, would understand why this photo makes me happy.

Mitered corners can be a pain to work on but some quilts keep begging you to do it until you finally give in!

How often has there been something you really wanted to do but, you found yourself saying “I just can’t find the time”? I know I’ve said it – a lot! As if I had somehow lost time and had to go look for it. I can’t lose time nor can I make time. Time just is.

I’m starting this blog to document the choices I make on how I spend the time I’ve been given. Perhaps writing about the mirrors and windows of daily living will inspire me to be more intentional.

Reflecting on time well spent with family and friends, my home, and of course…the never ending battle of the bulge, the mirror.

Most posts will likely be glimpses into my own little corner of the quilting world or in this analogy, the window.

I hope the future me reads back through this journal with a smile on her face and sees that I did my very best to squeeze every bit of life out of the 24 hours I was given each day. I’m reminded of my favorite quote. I too, aspire to make the most out of all that I’ve been given in this life as well.

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.” ~Erma Bombeck

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Unfinished business

Finding time