{"id":60970,"date":"2016-04-10T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=60970"},"modified":"2016-04-10T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T07:08:17","slug":"hear-ye-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60970","title":{"rendered":"Hear Ye!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome New Sisters! <\/a>(click for current roster)<\/p>\n

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Merit Badge Awardees <\/a>(click for latest awards)<\/p>\n

My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is \u2026 Wendie George!!!<\/p>\n

Wendie George (#6918) has received a certificate of achievement in Stitching & Crafting for earning a Beginner Level UFOs Merit Badge!<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great badge to earn. It’s a real feel-gooder. It feels great to finish a project that has been nagging at you.<\/p>\n

The first part was a bit intimidating. Organizing and putting all my UFOs each into their own container or bag was a bit of work. It has started the whole process of cleaning and reorganizing my entire craft room. This is also a good thing. I purchased a bunch of clear plastic totes and placed one project into a tote\/box. I then made the list of any supplies still needed to finish it and put the list inside the box on top of the supplies. I had a bunch of chalkboard stickers, so I put one on the front of each box and labeled the box with the project inside. While cleaning, I also made a box labeled “donation” for projects I no longer had interest in doing.<\/p>\n

The second part was to finish one of the UFOs. I chose to finish a baby quilt for a coworker that I started about a month ago. The quilt top was pieced together, but that’s as far as I had gotten.<\/p>\n

I feel I have succeeded in bagging and tagging all my UFOs. I also made a quick list of them all so I could start to cross it off. I am not going to admit the total number of UFOs on the list. I will just steadily work at finishing them while not creating more. Today I mailed the box of donation items to my Aunt. She is heavily involved with the church and many other quilters and aspiring quilters. I will let her spread out the projects to others who are willing to complete them (most were never started).<\/p>\n

I started to finish the quilt by sandwiching the top to the cotton batting with a teal minky backing. I chose a quick method of quilting the layers together, “stitch in the ditch.” I used my machine for this. I added the pieced binding onto the front by machine, and hand-quilted it to the back. The final step to complete the quilt was to embroider a tag for the back. I have a Viking machine that kindly embroiders the words for me. I then hand-sewed the tag onto the back. One UFO down, a “few” to go!\u201d<\/p>\n

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