Sandra from India posted a comment on my blog last week, asking me why I stopped blogging. To be honest, I hadn't planned to stop posting. It is just that I really only blog about my quilting. Not the other myriad of things that go on in my life. Unless that is, they relate somehow to quilting :-).
Well for the last 2 months, I have done very little quilting of my own. My son graduated college... WooHoo... we went on a family vacation early this year as I now have two 'working, supporting society' children. My son started work on July 2nd :-). Then 3 days after we returned from vaca, I spent two weeks in Mexico, Argentina and Chile for work. It was all fantastic, but that meant in the month between Mary 25th and June 24th, I was home for a total of 7 days. No quilting then.
Once I returned, I had to get back to the quilt I am quilting for a friend of a friend, who brought it on Etsy to give as a wedding present. It is huge and it is a traditional double wedding ring that he wants quilted traditionally, so you know it is taking me a long time... :-(. So of course, I can't post progress pictures of someone else's quilt until it is in their hands.
So that brings me to this weekend, when I realized I will be having dinner at my best friends house (we have known each other for 39 yrs ... yikes) on her birthday. Neither of us picked the date. It was picked by another women, she wants me to meet. But in this revelation, I realized that the quilt I started for her almost two years ago, could really be finished for her birthday if I focused. So today, a good friend (Thanks Teri Lucas !!) dropped me off a piece of wool batting and tonight I basted it and got all the in the ditch work done, as well as the free motion quilting in the center Mariner's Compass square.
You may remember this quilt, as I made the center compass in a class taught by Mary Anne Ciccotelli, using her 3D, folded fabric technique. I then used the folded flying geese around the center medallion and then again for the outer boarder. You can find more info about the top here, here and here. Told you it's been a long time coming :-)...
But for now, here is the quiling progress for tonight.
I like my corners. I can't believe I did them without a single marking. I started to mark at least the straight line from the corner to the tip of the flying geese and decided against it. :-). The photo's are a little blurry (or I am soo tired, they look blurry to me). But either way I will try to take better pictures tomorrow and share it with you.
Night!
Well for the last 2 months, I have done very little quilting of my own. My son graduated college... WooHoo... we went on a family vacation early this year as I now have two 'working, supporting society' children. My son started work on July 2nd :-). Then 3 days after we returned from vaca, I spent two weeks in Mexico, Argentina and Chile for work. It was all fantastic, but that meant in the month between Mary 25th and June 24th, I was home for a total of 7 days. No quilting then.
Once I returned, I had to get back to the quilt I am quilting for a friend of a friend, who brought it on Etsy to give as a wedding present. It is huge and it is a traditional double wedding ring that he wants quilted traditionally, so you know it is taking me a long time... :-(. So of course, I can't post progress pictures of someone else's quilt until it is in their hands.
So that brings me to this weekend, when I realized I will be having dinner at my best friends house (we have known each other for 39 yrs ... yikes) on her birthday. Neither of us picked the date. It was picked by another women, she wants me to meet. But in this revelation, I realized that the quilt I started for her almost two years ago, could really be finished for her birthday if I focused. So today, a good friend (Thanks Teri Lucas !!) dropped me off a piece of wool batting and tonight I basted it and got all the in the ditch work done, as well as the free motion quilting in the center Mariner's Compass square.
You may remember this quilt, as I made the center compass in a class taught by Mary Anne Ciccotelli, using her 3D, folded fabric technique. I then used the folded flying geese around the center medallion and then again for the outer boarder. You can find more info about the top here, here and here. Told you it's been a long time coming :-)...
But for now, here is the quiling progress for tonight.
Night!
2 comments:
I was kidding when I said I wanted pictures in an hour!!! This quilt is as beautiful as I remember and can not wait to see the finish!
Congrats to you and your friend for 39 years! I can think of no better way to celebrate.
Teri
Your work looks BEAUTIFUL! I too have a friend of 43 years that will be 60 in February...I am looking at the piles of fabric I bought for HER quilt and YIKES I'd better get on it...of course, my daughter wants a leopard print quilt to take to college in September...OH MY I'd better get SEWING!!!
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