One of my favorite blogs to follow is Bonnie Hunter's, Quiltville. She recently said she is planning to hand quilt for one hour per day when she is home (and not on the road teaching classes). In honor of September being National Sewing Month she asked who wanted to join her and I committed! She asked for pictures of what were were planning to quilt, where we would be when we quilted and to do a linky to her website of our pics. The quilt I want to finish hand quilting is one I started about a year ago. I finished the center of the quilt pretty quickly, then it got put on the back burner while I finished other projects. Here is the picture of my quilting area and the quilt I want to finish. I just have the borders to complete, so this will be the motivation I need.
Today, I am stitching while watching my St. Louis Cardinals vs. NY Mets. Currently, Cards are winning! I also like to quilt while watching NASCAR, but that was on last night. So I will cheer on the Cards while I quilt along!
I have recently quilted on this project a few days at my alternate quilting location, my car! I arrive at my grandson's school about 30 minutes early to get a good parking space. So I always bring something to stitch. Great for finishing bindings, small items, etc. However, I didn't have anything else, so I grabbed this one day and it has become my car project. So on those days, I will make another 30 minutes to sit and stitch and my hour will be complete. It's a little bit of a tight squeeze to quilt in a car, but I lay the bulky part in the passenger side seat. I wondered why my car kept asking me if I wanted the passenger side airbag off???
I am really motivated to get this finished. Bonnie asked us to print out her calendar and write down each day how long we hand stitch and to make a picture of it with our post and to link it to her website. I'll have to show that next week as I'll need to make a trip to the library to print out the calendar.
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I love all the bright colors - and it looks like a fun pattern. Did you design it yourself, or do you remember where the pattern came from?
ReplyDeleteThank you, I love 30's fabrics. I knew when I was making the top that I had to hand quilt it. It was a fun quilt to make. Just 12 big blocks. I did the border a little different than the pattern. I hope to get it finished during the challenge. Then I'll post a big pic. The pattern was in Fons and Porter magazine, July/August 2009, the cover quilt. It is 76" x 94". I still have the magazine if you don't have that one.
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