Quilting the 2022 through 2023 Temperature Quilt

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for Americans. I hope no one will be alone on the holiday. While I'm not in the turkey camp, that is what my son-in-law is cooking. My husband and I feel blessed to be going to their house. I've been asked to bring sourdough rolls and a pie. The caveat was cook's choice. I'm trying a new roll recipe along with a tried a true one. We have a lot of gooseberries in the freezer so I'll be making a pie with those. Our one bush produced many quarts this year! 

Back of quilt

Last month, I began quilting the 2022 through 2023 Temperature Quilt. My plan was to quilt it with an all over design of clam shells. 

Clam shells in the border

While I liked the clamshells in the border, I did not like them on the boxes. . . .sigh. . . Gertie, my inner squirrel. tried to tell me to stop after one row into the top. but, I didn't listen!nI stitched another 15 rows before I decided Gertie was right. 

Updated quilting pattern in spacer boxes

It took me many sessions over three days to rip the 15 rows that I stitched with the clamshell motif. I ripped a few rows at a time and then stitched the updated pattern. Quilting this project is going to take a long time. I planned to quilt on this project every day that I was in the studio. My Mavens quilt buddy Linda D tells me that over time a little bit of progress adds up! It turns out, I didn't even come close to that goal. Instead, I'm finding that I need to make quilting a priority of the day and then move to another project!

Same quilting pattern on the days of the year

Making progress on the quilting on this project was goal number ten on my November list. I currently have quilted 10 rows of blocks. There are 34 rows of blocks so I'm closing in on having a third of the rows quilted.