I'm still alive, I promise. I have been super busy the last month and very little quilting has been done, but I did manage to get October's UFO put together. Here it is! Sorry, the picture isn't the best. I've been working on this at the LQS open sewing night because I'm hoping I can get it completed before Christmas as a gift for the hubby.
The story behind this quilt is that a while back the hubby decided he wanted to learn to quilt. It was shortly after I had taken a "Stack the Deck" class based upon Karla Alexander's book. I decided this was the more forgiving project I could set him on, so he collected all the black and white fabrics, with one red fabric to add some contrast and started.
Needless to say, he got 18 blocks together. They aren't exactly all flat, but they are together. Then he gave up. Since 18 nine inch blocks didn't exactly make a quilt that would even make a lap quilt for him, I decided to add the red and black blocks.
I bought some fabric last summer that he fell in love with that I think will be perfect for the border, but of course, I didn't buy enough, so I've been trying to track down more online.
It's from Robert Kaufman's Night and Day 3 line. Isn't it fun?
So that's October's UFO (mostly) done. Now onto November. Just some applique on my brown and pink quilt and a few borders. Shouldn't be too hard.
