I absolutely LOVE this...I am so glad you are restoring these. I also love that you are a quilt shop owner but your channel isn't just about selling us fabric. Much respect! God bless you and happy new year!

@karentzn

7 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you. A stunning channel.

@golfanyone65

7 ай бұрын

Love the T's quilt. Reminds me of dogs. Just need to add eyes and noses.

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. By the way, I'm happy to sell you all the fabric you need. But in the meantime, enjoy the show! 🤣 Oh, and Happy Quilting!

Thank you so much for saving these beautiful old works of art.

This is so special. It’s like you are preserving history and rescuing quilts that were so lovingly begun. Blessings.

Hi Shelley. My name is Tracy and I live in Australia . Your project box #4 - the T blocks are for a Temperance Quilt. I have Kathleen Tracy's book "Civil War Sewing Circle" in which she tells a little of the history behind the Temperance quilt and features a mini quilt pattern. I'm excited to see your finished quilt. 😊 I too like to rescue UFO projects from Thrift stores.

You truly are amazing. You have rescued so many projects from antique/resale shops and brought them home to finish. I am very excited to see the results every month. Thank you for sharing.☺️

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

You are so awesome! It is going to be so much fun to watch what you do with these different projects over the year. I just love how you are honoring the work of previous people and completing their projects. Bravo to you!

@trishwinstead28

4 ай бұрын

I think 2023 is on a Playlist if you "need" to Watch. Enjoy 😉

Number 9 is a spiderweb quilt pattern, a pattern I wanted to make for 30+ years, maybe 2024 is the year…

The T blocks make great dog faces!!

Love all of your vintage projects and pieces of fabrics. Those fabrics remind me of my grandmother's projects and fabrics she used to make quilts. I am so anxious to see what magic you will do with each project. My favorite fabric is the reproduction 30's.

What an interesting year of projects. I am looking forward to seeing what you create. I particularly loved the note from your aunt. That was a wonderful slice of your family history. Wishing you continued good health.

I love this way of getting projects completed. You make it fun! Thank you for sharing. 😊🌹🦋

What a wonderful theme you’ve developed for 2024 with all these beautiful rescued projects! I can’t wait to see what happens each month! Thank you for your videos!

Thank you for this idea. I did this with my WIPs and the smaller kits I bought last year during the shop hop. It really helps me focus on one thing at a time. Love it!

Your projects are so interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing them come alive.

You don't know how glad I am to see your projects. I also buy up other sew sisters' projects from the past. I have many many mid-century blocks and partial blocks, wedding ring curves, etc. I'm very excited to see your solution to some of these and it inspires me to work on my collection. Isn't it fun to see the fabrics, and to wonder about the maker- as well as her life? I like to think of these projects as a team effort in getting them done. I will be avidly watching!

Love this idea! I have so many UFO's I go in circles. Your system sounds manageable, fun, and has a fun accountability factor too. Your vintage fabrics & projects are treasures! Happy 2024 :)

I love all the unfinished quilt pieces you have found!! Truly a treasure!! Thanks for the inspiration!!

I’m so glad I found your channel. The bonus project is going to be so darling!

Wow you have a lot to do this year. I watched last year all that you accomplished. You are really challenging yourself. I’m impressed. I think everything you finish will be beautiful. I can’t wait to see all of them. 💕

Wohhh ! I am impressed about the courage behind the idea “I start with something that doesn’t make sense and make something beautiful 😮” Really impressed about the job you have done with project number 9 🤩 You are wonderful !

Looks like some fun projects to work on and finish.

I CANNOT wait to see your progress on these projects in ‘24!

I just love all the vintage quilt pieces! I can’t wait to see what you do with them!

What a treasure trove of projects and fabrics. I can’t wait to see what you do with them all. I’m sure the original owners would be thrilled to see them completed. Funnily enough, I made all the Splendid Sampler 2 blocks using repro 1030s fabrics. I still have to get up the courage to quilt it.

Great job on those finishes. Your new #9 looks festive like Mexican festive.

If it were me, I would leave the number 12 quilt like it is. Asymmetrical would be gorgeous! Just my opinion.

Great idea! I have unfinished projects galore.

Such a nice video I enjoyed watching and seeing all of your quilt blocks. When all of these blocks are made. into quilts You will have so many beautiful quilts. Looking forward to seeing each one made. Thank you for this video and your time in creating it.

Thank you for showing your projects for this year. There are some nice ones in there.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Shelle! I have had so many projects, most just needing binding (which I hate doing) and wondered how I would ever get all of it done. Now, I have 10 neat little boxes (still need 2 more tubs) so by the end of the year, they will be done on off to someone else's house. :)

I look forward to seeing what you do with your projects. Those are some pretty amazing finds.

Those T blocks look like shirts or kimonos. My grandmother on my dad’s side was also named Mildred.❤

I love this series it’s my favorite. I have loads of of unfinished craft projects I can do

I love this idea and I LOVE all of these partly finished projects you found and or were given to you! ❤

Thank you! Can’t wait to get started! I love your projects. I look forward to seeing how you create each set!

Yay! I love vintage quilts and I love 30’s repros! Can’t wait to see these projects come to life 😮

On #10 could put 1 color way on front and other colorway on the back of the project

This will be a challenging year project wise, can’t wait to see all your antique and older projects come to life. Exciting.

Oh my! Ambitious and historic. I love, love everything, but especially your strings/stars and the grandmother's flower garden. I have a few retro projects I have been saving for summer travel in 2024. You should let Pat know that you are going to finish your Splendid Sampler. ❤

It’s kismet! I left the quilt I need to get done immediately off the list and made a 1-9 collection, ready to re-arrange it so that I’d work on the urgent one in January - and #10 was selected! Perfect!

The T blocks are Temperance blocks. The Temperance movement is largely forgotten today, but was a huge issue women worked on in the late 19th up to the mid 20th century.

@thequiltedforest

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the historical message!

Project #4 looks like kimonos to me. That’ll be fun to complete.

Super!!

Good luck with your very interesting projects for 2024. Congratulations on saving old UFOs, the original maker will be pleased. Also, I think that project 9 is sometimes called a spiderweb pattern. 😊❤

Love that you're using a lot of vintage quilts that were never finished. Please show us how you clean them up and show us the cleaner you mentioned. I've never heard of retro-clean. Love your channel and look forward to all your projects and ideas. Thank you for all your hard work!

Wow! This is going to ve interesting.....i watched your monthly videos last year and really enjoyed. This a big challenge you put on yourself. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Wow!!! Not that I want to rush time.... but I can't wait to see how you finish all of these projects!! I have a couple sets of pieced parts that have been given to me back in the 80's. I think I need to get off of my fanny and start working on them!!

i'm really looking forward to number 9

#8 vines (serpentine) and flowers (dresden). Front of dress is sunbonnet sue. Should be an arm, hat and foot,too.

So fun that you are doing this again this year. It was so fun and encouraging to watch your progress last year. I started out good getting several projects done. I need to plan out this years projects. When you use the refresh cleaner, are you spot cleaning? Washing before quilting? Maybe you could talk about this process when you work on one of those quilts! Hope you are feeling good after your surgery. Happy New Year! 🎉🎊🔔

Wow, Shelly, what collection of 30’s quilt blocks and parts! This is a great line up of projects for 2024. I really enjoyed this series last year and I look forward to this year, as well. And maybe, just maybe, I may join in and get some of my own done. I know I can come up with at least 12 WIPs that need attention😉Thank you for the inspiration!

Love the projects you chose.

I love your projects! I wish I could find projects like these when I haunt antique stores!

Love the idea. I recently was given an old unfinished quilt top. I gave it to my long arm quilter and now have to bind it. I love this top it has given me so much enjoyment. Finished is so much better than worrying I hadn’t hand quilted it. Chris

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

On project #4 looks like the blocks I made and I appliquéd 2 circles to make the block look like a puppy dog 😂😂

Me encanta todo lo as rescatado,!!que maravilla poder seguir con los proyectos, gracias por compartir 😊🤗 Feliz 2024!!!

Just subscribed. I find you delightful! My mom was Mildred, and called Millie.

I really enjoy this segment of your channel. This looks like it will be a really fun year! Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing with us!

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I'm actually purging and packing so I can sell my house and move out of state. When I was setting up my sewing room many years ago, my Son actually gave me this idea. He said I should have no more than 10 containers on my shelves. When I finished one, I could add another to the end of the line. Maybe I'll join you next year but I'll certainly keep up with all of you to see how you're coming along.

Good luck with your projects. Working on a hand sewn grandmothers flower garden. Taking me a long time. Those are some old quilt projects you have there. I'm jealous. Love each and every pattern you shown. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to each month.

@thequiltedforest

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Those "T" blocks look like puppy faces!

Really like this idea.

A wonderful video. Thank you.

I look forward to seeing how your projects look completed. What a fun focus for this year. This morning I decided on a list of 10 projects, and most are not quilt related but are creative projects that need finishing. I am out of country most of January and February, so I will number the list when I get back and pick up from March. Thanks for a fun start of the year.

Wow, Great Projects!! Great inspiration!!

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Looks like a fun year! On project 8, I visualize the wavy wedding ring elements as a baby or throw quilt with "rows" of those waves. And on project 12, how about adding a border that you trim to make the quilt square? Happy quilting!

You have such beautiful 2024 projects! I followed you all of 2023 and finally decided to participate. So I made my list yesterday, and number 10 will be first up - to finish two months of easy blocks for a block of the month I never finished from a few years ago. I am dreading number 11, which is to finish the hard blocks on said BOM, so thanks for not choosing that one. 😂. I have one project spread out to last three months because it is … awful. One of mine is also squares which were hand-appliquéd to the background that my Mom and I started 45 years ago. She did lovely hand-appliqué work. I was supposed to do the border. All fun fabrics from my childhood as Mom made all my clothes. I am trying to decide how to add the border without having to appliqué it on. But that will be for another month. Happy sewing!

I hope you’re feeling well after your surgery. I love this rescue plan and I’m looking forward to see your videos every month. It’s wonderful how your followers told the name of some of your quilts, it’s magic!!! I’m new at patchwork and quilting and in my country is not traditional to make quilts, but as I learn I’m making mini quilts and small projects with the blocks. You must have quilts enough to make a wonderful museum. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤

What an awesome idea. I always have multiple projects going but, this will give more focus.

@thequiltedforest

5 ай бұрын

You can do it!

Love this idea

Looking forward to seeing how you assemble the blocks for project #10.

I’m glad ur doing this again. I’m going to start this also this year

Such a great idea! Thank you ! I love the things you do! You are so inspiring!

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I saw a few of your videos at the end of last year. What a great concept. I’m playing along this year but my goal is to make significant progress on each project rather than the pressure to finish them on a domestic machine. I think my WIP pile will decrease in 2024. :)

Amazing that you are going to give those quilt a new life and a forever home. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

I am never fortunate enough to find old quilts, completed or not, at thrift stores, etc. Nor do I have any living relatives to hand me down old family quilt projects. I'm amazed at what you have accumulated over the years. I have to ask -- what do you do with what you rework and complete? Do you pass them on to other family members or maybe donate them?

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

I donate quite a few to worthy causes. Some I give as gifts to friends and family. And every once in awhile I keep them. Happy Quilting!

This is going to be am interesting year. What special projects. I would like to suggest you document the projects. I just have a fealing these will be come part of something bigger some how. #9 could also be one of your jelly roll projects.

You have some task ahead of you. I have my mom and dad's quilt. Unfortunately, it's too far gone. My mom's mom made it for them in the late 1940s.

I have my Splendid sampler 2 to finish as well. Aimée

Looking forward to your projects for 2024. I am going to list my projects and see how many I can get done❤️

@thequiltedforest

7 ай бұрын

You can do it!

I started my list from memory and have 5 things on it, one of which could be my bonus project. I need to check my pile of UFOs as I know I have way more than 5! My bonus project is a hand pieced hexie quilt top. I started it in 2010 when I was diagnosed with an illness and needed to go backwards and forwards to hospital regularly. I haven't touched it in a long time. It's a good sized piece now so I am thinking of just filling in the gaps and turning it into a Linus Quilt. I'll finish my list this weekend and see which project lands at No10.

My heart is overjoyed with knowing you are lovelingly going to finish those bought partial quilts. We know how long it takes. So sad they were not loved by the owner or family. Glad your heart is open to finish them.

Good idea !

❤. I generally don’t listen to much narrative on quilting & sewing channels, but I actually thoroughly enjoyed listening to you because you have an easy to listen to voice, you aren’t playing background music 😬, and it’s been such a pleasure seeing what you’ve found and your plans for them. I like old cookbooks from thrift stores and think about the person who made the notes in the margins of recipes they’ve tried. I never see old quilt items but maybe I should keep an eye out for them. 😊Thank you for a lovely overview!!!

that hexi quilt is beautiful!! so lovely to see these projects being rescued

I think the number four is a dog like a terrier type dog possibly that’s what I first thought on. I saw you show this.

Wow just wonderful. Love the feelings and love around the quilts so lucky you found them .❤️❤️❤️

Your quilt in bin 2 has my heart!! I absolutely love the projects you chose for this year!!!

I just stumbled across your channel and sub. You have some lovely old fabrics. I won't participate, but I am excited to see your completed projects. So I will be following. I really like the feed sacks, but projects number 3 & 5 are my favorites. Number 5, I really want to see what you do with it. Will you cut it in 2 or 3 parts to make a quilt ? I know you mentioned a table runner. It could be curtain valances as well. Have fun completing your wonderful projects.

@thequiltedforest

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@rachelburgener819

7 ай бұрын

I too saw window valance out of all that length🤪 ❤️😀

I have stumbled upon this just a little late. I am so inspired by your ambition and projects that I am running to my sewing studio this minute to pull out 12 projects! At this rate I may clear old projects out in 4 years or so! 😅 I am grateful to you for this inspiring way to tackle all these "to do someday" projects! I have not been allowing myself to buy anything new but never know what to tackle so haven't accomplished much. So, so happy right now! Thank you!

What fun! Thank you for sharing all of these treasures with us! I cannot wait to see what you do with everything! I hope you are on the mend and feeling better!

Wow Shelli These are fantastic finds and gifts!!! This will be really interesting to see these come to life. I’m looking forward to alllll that you have to offer. ❤️😀

Yay! Glad you are doing this again this year, I really enjoyed last year.

I did 6 out of my 12 last year. Guess it is time to start again.

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Yay! That's called progress. Happy Quilting!

Wow, this will be an ambitious year. I'm very excited to see your finished projects. Thank you for your productive videos!!

Your vintage projects are the bomb! You are going to have a beautiful collection antique quilts when you are finished. You have motivated me to dig into my boxes of old. I hope you are getting the rest you need to heal, too. ❤

@thequiltedforest

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

#9 with the green pieces and the string pieces is a Spiderweb design. I will be watching with interest, as I have a few old quilts I would like to repair and/or restore and/or re-make (because a lot of the fabric is not strong enough and has started to deteriorate. I love your collection of old quilt blocks, and I will be so happy to see how the quilts turn out. Thanks for the lovely video.

We do this every year at our local quilt shop. It works well.

You might be able to use 10 and 11 blocks together.

Your planned projects are so exciting! I think I have the Pat Sloan book, but haven't done any projects from it yet so now I will take a look for your block!