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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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. Linking to
Patchwork and Quilting.
7 comments:
That is a lot of work, Terry. It will be worth it in the end. Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!
I love the new direction you're taking on the quilting. Definitely, a little time each session adds up to a lot of progress! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
I'm sorry you had to do all that quilting and then rip it out - sometimes we just keep thinking it's going to get better, but it doesn't! I do like the new design that follows the angles of the blocks. Happy baking and Thanksgiving with the family!
Well, darn that you didn’t listen to Gertie but good you are quilting something you like….even if it’s taking a looooong time.
Happy Thanksgiving, Terry. I do wish you a lovely day with your family. Mmm sourdough rolls and a gooseberry pie sounds yummy to me. I have really enjoyed watching your progress on the temperature quilts over the years. I am so sorry you had to take some of the quilting out ; sometimes we have to make those decisions - the ups and downs of quilting. Right? Warm hugs
You have a lot of free motion quilting patterns in your brain 😁😆😀
The new direction for your quilting is pretty cool! Sorry for the 15 rows you had to unquilt, but now you have found a nice way to finish this beautiful quilt!
Thank you for sharing your work in progress and linking up!
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