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As many of you know, one of the things I've been doing to shed nerves during the pandemic is quilting. Mostly, I've been piecing. I have probably "finished" piecing three or four quilts, but over Thanksgiving, I actually finished one of them.
Image: Willow standing on a brightly colored quilt made up of blue, green, orange, and yellow bird-patterned squares.
Some of the details are hard to see, but I quilted the batting and backing onto the pieced section with buttons. They are probably easiest to see on the solid colored squares, because they kind of otherwise PERFECTLY match the cartoon bird yellow squares. The birds' eyes are very reminiscent of buttons, as it turns out. Anyway, it was a big project, but now I am looking at my other quilts and thinking about edging and batting, etc.
It should be noted for the record, that for reasons of pandemic (and not being comfortable with sewing machines) this was entirely done by hand. Even the quilting. Witness my quilting frame/hoop (plus cat)!!
Image: Buttercup sitting on the quilting frame/hoop.
Tomorrow Shawn gets her second eye done--cataract surgery. She's looking forward to being able to see the same strength (or thereabouts) through both eyes. Will catch you all up on how that goes after tomorrow.
Hope all my fellow Americans had a lovely Thanksgiving (my Canadians, yeah, I'm REALLY belated with this. Sorry.) The rest of the world? Yeah, I dunno, it's a holiday where we eat. Nicely secular, actually. One of my favorites since it is always my made family/friends that I celebrate with.
Image: Willow standing on a brightly colored quilt made up of blue, green, orange, and yellow bird-patterned squares.
Some of the details are hard to see, but I quilted the batting and backing onto the pieced section with buttons. They are probably easiest to see on the solid colored squares, because they kind of otherwise PERFECTLY match the cartoon bird yellow squares. The birds' eyes are very reminiscent of buttons, as it turns out. Anyway, it was a big project, but now I am looking at my other quilts and thinking about edging and batting, etc.
It should be noted for the record, that for reasons of pandemic (and not being comfortable with sewing machines) this was entirely done by hand. Even the quilting. Witness my quilting frame/hoop (plus cat)!!
Image: Buttercup sitting on the quilting frame/hoop.
Tomorrow Shawn gets her second eye done--cataract surgery. She's looking forward to being able to see the same strength (or thereabouts) through both eyes. Will catch you all up on how that goes after tomorrow.
Hope all my fellow Americans had a lovely Thanksgiving (my Canadians, yeah, I'm REALLY belated with this. Sorry.) The rest of the world? Yeah, I dunno, it's a holiday where we eat. Nicely secular, actually. One of my favorites since it is always my made family/friends that I celebrate with.