Lucy joins the Orphan Train-Part 1 (Part 2 below)

from across the big pond, Lucy is sharing her orphan blocks project. She blogs at http://lucyquilting.blogspot.com/ and calls her blog Quilting with the Past (see sidebar for link) Having more than one of most of these blocks, gave her a different perspective....
She considered them UFO's and what's interesting us that's another way to get the odds and ends and beginnings used!
She didn't have as many UFO's as some, but enough to consider them a weight on her back. Play time began with the arrival of some new books from the USA.a>
Here are Lucy's words to tell you what happened: Last week I am treated by Dawn with two new Books !! One book is full with antique quilts displayed in gorgeous rooms . The other book is full with inspiring words from Gwen Marston and Freddy Morgan . Droling the whole week over the beautiful quilts made me that I want to start with a new one. But that also means that a other quilt is added to my pile of UFOs. ...... mmm. It is not a good feeling to sew with a "pile of UFOs on my back"
Gwen's inspirationwords give me a light ......

All of this happened very quickly. See part 2 below for the final additions and the finished product, including her creative backing solution...*VBS* Welcome aboard Lucy, glad to have you with us...great job on this quilt, as always!!

Part 2: Lucy joins the Orphan Train...

The "making it fit together" is one of the biggest challenges to working with Orphan blocks. Spare parts often do the trick...and then there is the border to be added.
And...in Lucy's own words: I reduced five UFOs to one !!!!!!!!!!!!!

That feels so great ! Thanks to the inspring words from Gwen Marston and Freddy Morgan ! I can start with a new quilt without the feeling from a lot of ufos on my back .

And at least I can say that this quilt is very MAVERICK !!

mmmm .. now I am thinking of using a ufo quiltop for the backing ....... That means that I am rid of 6 Ufos ......