Announcing "18 in 2018"

Multi-purpose post here. Firstly, I hope your holiday is going nicely!

Secondly, we're continuing this challenge again this year. Note that you can break the number among however few or many quilts you want.

And thirdly, I did zero BOM work this week with family here, so last week's BOMs Away link is still active if you have something to share.  :)  

It's official! With Meredithe's blessing, we'll be hosting "18 in 2018" here, so those of us who thrived on the 17 in 2017 can keep the push going. She and Anne have switched to 6 & 6 in 2018 for those who want to challenge themselves to old and new alike.  :)

Check out the 18 in 2018 organizing page for details and info on how to make that number work for you. You can link up your own listing post here or on that page.

[The challenge is not to finish 18 UFOS (unless you want to), 
but to do the work for 18 stages divided among however many quilts you designate.]

I hope you'll play and help spread the word. I'll be putting a button up in the sidebar that folks can grab.

Let's have another great year of advances!

18 in 2018 Working Posts 
(This link-up will stay open all year. It is where you link your initial listing post, and you can do that at any point in the year.)

An InLinkz Link-up

BOMs Away - Christmastime

Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM-type project 

so they don't stall out in UFO-land!

(Linky at the bottom.)

Hi! We are mostly geared into finishing our holiday bedecking and getting ready for out-of-town company here. It's a fun, busy time of year.

I did get bits of work advanced on this old Christmas BOM during the early mornings this week. About 2/3 of "Once Upon a Star" has now had its trapunto-applique stitching put in.

Although, the polar bears and whales all need the batting trimmed away and tails tied & tucked behind, like the penguins have had done. . . 

Hope you're having a good time these days - Any progress on BOM type projects happening for you?

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Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up,

and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

WIP'n along and Whoop'n it up

Woohoo!!!   This is #16 on my 17 in 2017 list, so I know now that I can check them all off by year's end.

Devon's quilt has quite a bit of quilting that was done on the domestic. There is a lot left, though, and much had to be done to prep it for the longarm. 

Something like 250 pins have been taken out of the blue area, all the hundreds of tails are tied and tucked, backing is squared, and spacers are sewn onto the three narrow sides (I anticipate wanting to turn this quilt for easier border work.) This is a large queen quilt.

I did all the marking yesterday on the Sapphire Stars Mystery quilt that I'm finishing as a special QOV for my father-in-law. I made the USAF stencil the old-school way by printing the right size onto cardstock and wielding an X-acto knife. Also cut the border elements out of a cereal box (some day I'll have star rulers for longarms, but for now it's old-school).  I got about 1/2 of the stabilizing done on the longarm before night's call. Hopefully this afternoon I can finish that up and start on some of the fun work.

And my early-morning attention is currently on puffins and penguins - they're maybe halfway finished getting their trapunto work.  :)   This FMQ work still happens at my domestic machine for two reasons: 1) I don't have nearly enough fine control yet with my longarm to do close-edge applique quilting with so many tiny details; 2) Quilting through multiple layers of fusible can be really tricky even without fine-control issues. I'll be waiting until I have a lot more experience with my longarm and its reaction to various threads, fabrics, and pop-up issues before putting any fusibles on it.

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Linking to:

Lorna's Let's Bee Social, 

Sarah's Whoop, Whoop!

Meridithe's 17 in 2017