Saturday, 29 August 2015

Simpler Times Sampler



I love the look of hand quilting, but it's ever so much harder to do than you’d expect. The needles used in hand quilting are impossibly small. If you drop one into your carpet, the only way you’ll ever find it again is with your bare feet. My first (and possibly last) hand quilting project was the large quilt that’s currently hanging above my piano. I set up a frame in my living room so I could watch movies as I worked. No one could sit on my sofa with the frame there, but I believed it was only a temporary nuisance. When, after weeks of work, I’d only finished a few square feet, I began to wonder if I would live long enough to complete it. Before I reached the halfway point I realized I’d put the quilt on the frame wrong. I had to pull out every single stitch. When I was done, I happily paid someone else to machine quilt it.

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