Oh, Lord, Where Did THAT Come From?

I think I'm in trouble.

At our first Thimbleberries Club meeting in January, we were told about a new year-long challenge:  we are to identify Thimbleberries UFOs that we would like to finish this year, fill out the list they gave us, and turn it in at the February meeting.  Finished means everything including binding and a label.  So I came home and put the blank list on my sewing table.  Off and on over the past couple of weeks, I thought about the Thimbleberries-related projects I was currently working on and would like to finish, like the Harrington and Hannah quilt.  Then I thought about a couple of the really old BOMs I have languishing somewhere in the deep, dark spaces under my sewing table.  (Boy, you can really cram a lot of stuff under there, you know?)  Next I checked my basket of quilt tops that need quilting.  And I considered some of the swapped blocks I've collected.  Gee, I have more projects than I have lines on the form!  Yikes!

But here's the really shocking part.  One of the quilts on my list was this Christmas basket quilt:

I thought it was pinned and ready for quilting.  I thought it was a fairly small (i.e., "quick") project that I could get done by the next Thimbleberries gathering.  So I went looking for it on the quilt rack I have in the Sweat Shop.

The quilt rack that holds projects I haven't quite finished and projects that are ready to be quilted.  And guess what?  Buried under there, I found not only the Christmas basket quilt--that isn't, after all, all pinned and ready for quilting--but I also found two more Thimbleberries quilts that I completely forgot were on the rack!

This is one I made last year (or the year before?) from swapped birthday blocks and I love it!  How could I have forgotten?!

And this is one I made from Thimbleberries scraps a couple years ago.  Well, I made all the blocks at one time, and a few years later, I set them and added the sashing.

I think I still need to add a border to that one though.  But I like it a lot too!  So it simply MUST go on the list as well, right?

Fifteen Thimbleberries quilts that I want to finish this year.  And that doesn't even count the other non-Thimbleberries applique BOM quilts I'm still working on from last year or the other quilt tops I might want to quilt--like Comfort & Joy.  Or my several monthly wool projects. 

See what I mean?  I think I'm in trouble.