Temperature Quilt 2021 Layered and Basted

Some of the trimmed threads from the
back of the quilt top

Goal number four in my January list was to layer and pin baste the 2021 Temperature quilt. I last posted about it here in February of 2022 when I finished the top! Last Sunday was THE day. I spent hours trimming the threads on the back of the quilt. Gosh there were a lot of them. I didn't trim them all; but, I trimmed the majority of them. I trim because I don't want a dark thread shadowing behind a light fabric.

Smoothed waiting for pins

After placing the backing and the batting on the table, I laid the freshly pressed top on the batting. I patted and smoothed the top into as square a position as I could. I had forgotten how bright and colorful this top is! 

Pinned and ready for quilting

I pinned. It was good practice for my knee to stand. My knee didn't like standing. I plan to continue doing activities where I am standing to encourage my knee to tolerate standing! At work, I stand about 45 minutes of each hour.

I hope to spend some time this month quilting in the ditch and around the circles. I will also quilt around the embroidery. I have a plan to enhance the embroidery of the months. The rest will come as I quilt. I'm not planning intricate designs as the piecing and the color are what needs to be accentuated.

Back of the quilt

I so look forward to finishing this project this year!!! Finishing this quilt will also meet a part of the annual goal that I set for myself to finish six quilts that have been hanging about the studio for a long time!!!

Eventually, I will gift this quilt to my oldest granddaughter to mark her tenth year. She will be 13 in May; but, I think she will get a kick out of being able to see what the weather was like when she was ten! We made a big deal out of being a decade old!

Linking to Alycia at Finished or Not Friday.