Yes, after YEARS of having this project on my to do list, I have pulled it out of the project box and started to finish the quilting. First, I am obsessed at the moment with crossing things off my to do list. Frankly, I am sick of looking at the same items month after month. Second, I need the project box for something else.
Now that you are back in your chair a second time after being gobsmacked on to the floor, you read that right. I am machine quilting a real quilt. It isn’t a king sized quilt or anything, but it is also not fabric for a bag or a tablerunner. It is real quilting on a quilt.
I started working on it last Friday. I started with the frame of one of the blocks. I thought some straight line quilting would get be back in the groove.
The good thing about that red frame is that the quilting would not show if I used red thread.
You are probably remembering the Cha Cha Cha table runner. Yes, I quilted that myself, as well as some fabric for bags this year, so it’s not like it has been 20 years since I actually quilted anything. It has been about 10 years since I worked on this project. Recently, I have decided that UFOs are a bad thing for me and I want to eradicate them, as much as possible from my workroom.
I had the box of thread I used for the other, already quilted Tarts blocks, so I picked out the red (Maderia rayon I used to use for embroidery) and got busy.
I was pretty pleased with how the process worked. I was a little nervous about doing the frame before the center, but it ended up all working out.
I was particularly pleased that the quilting made the frame flat. It seemed really puffy when I started (first photo, above). I know that I need to work from the center out and I am doing that, mostly. I started with the frame, because I didn’t want the quilting to show while I worked out stitch length, etc.
I think the stitching looks ok. It is not Colleen’s stitching, but it is not terrible either.
Onward. Maybe I’ll finally finish this quilt, but one thing at a time.
I remember this one! I thought it was finished YEARS ago! hahahaha I have a UFO that is older than it is, so I understand your procrastination as well as the urge to get it done so it quits haunting you. I still think this is such a happy piece too. 🙂
haha!!! Out of site, out of mind, I guess. I had hoped it would magically get done, but I have to work on it. It is a very happy piece, but it is also very different than the work I am doing now. Also, much different fabrics.