It is beautiful right now on the West coast of Canada. Cool crisp nights, some morning fog, and sun in the afternoon. It’s hard, very hard to stay inside and quilt when it is so nice outside!
However, I have been working with digitizing software. It’s 
actually fun! A simple project that I have been working on is taking an element from the fabric in the quilt, making a simple outline and stitching it out.
It worked great on my sample, (first picture), but when I tried to put it on the quilt, it wouldn’t line up right: see the “line” between the ears?” I have a very small machine and I don’t think it was intended for quilting. I will finish the quilt on a bigger machine at work.
More Quilting
While I’m waiting to finish the hexi quilt at work, I’ve started quilting on a giraffe quilt that I started in April at a retreat. My original intent was to digitize one of the giraffe’s in the quilt. However, I think by quilting a giraffe in each block, it would take away from the awesomeness of these beautiful giraffes.
Sew … this quilt will be free motion quilted …
Piecing
Fire burst is being assembled.
Summary: No UFOs finished in October, so I still have 4 UFOs to complete by the end of the year. However, I did finish 2 of my Sept. 2018 starts, “Wonky Log Cabin” and “Christmas ?” (which I’ll show you closer to Christmas.) That leaves me with 2 Starts in 2018 to complete … Doable? I certainly hope so!
Stash Report
Wonky Log Cabin is finished … This used 7 1/4 yards of fabric. You can see more about this quilt HERE and HERE.
- Fabric Used this week: 7.25 yards
- Fabric Used this year: 222.85 yards
- Fabric Added this Week: 0 yard
- Fabric Added this Year: 77.3 yards
- Net Fabric Used for 2018: 145.55 yards
Happy Quilting!
Gail
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Linking to:
- Tish @ Tish’s Adventures in Wonderland
- So Scrappy Saturdays @ So Scrappy
- Sunday Stash @quiltpaintcreate
- Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework
- Monday Making @ Love, Laugh, Quilt
- Main Crush Monday @Cooking up Quilts
- Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
- Moving it Forward Monday @Em’s Scrapbag
- Linky Tuesday @ Free Motion by the River
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It’s so good to see Fireburst gathering speed and waiting to make its big explosion to finished! No matter what you decide to quilt on the giraffe quilt it will be amazing. That is really cool fabric!
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Fireburst is looking good, and I’m looking forward to seeing it all together! Love that green border/sashing on the giraffe quilt too. I think you’re right about stitching the giraffes, the herd would just get too big! LOL Thanks for linking to MCM!
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Hi Beth … I’m excited to put Fireburst together!
And yes, we don’t want herds of giraffes where you wouldn’t be able to see the individual ones!
Happy Cooking and Quilting! 🙂
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Your fireburst is going to be lovely!
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Thank you Vicki!
Happy Knitting and Quilting! 🙂
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Hi Gail! I have great confidence that you will get the remaining four UFOs complete, and definitely Fireburst for the January 1st parade. ~smile~ Roseanne
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Hi Roseanne,
Thank you for your faith in me … we will see if it is correct or not! 🙂 But I do LOVE your encouragement!
Happy Quilting! 🙂
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Great job on all your UFO finishes and good luck getting those few more done by the end of the year. I am working through some of mine too and it is so satisfying to get them done!
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Hi Jen,
Thank you!
Yes, it’s great to get UFOs done!
Happy Quilting! 🙂
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It’s impressive that you are going to finish everything you started this year and not add any new UFOs AND how many UFOs you finished. I’d go with enjoying the weather while you can. Winter is just around the corner.
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Hi Donna,
I’m determined to NOT add to my UFO list. Unfortunately, when I’m searching for something, I occasionally come across ANOTHER UFO … groan … I will add them to my list at the beginning of 2019 … but I want to have those UFOs gone, gone, gone …
Thank you for hosting the Sunday Stash … it’s certainly helped to curb my needless fabric buying!
Happy Quilting & Stitching! 🙂
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