You’re looking at the 29th quilt top I’ve made for the Intermountain
Medical Center volunteer quilters. It has 1080 two-inch (finished) pieces, cut
from 1080 different prints, unless somehow I messed up and used one of them
twice. This took more time to piece than most double/queen sized quilts, but I
can’t remember a top that was more fun to piece. When I first started making
tops for them a decade ago, there were five volunteers, painstakingly hand
quilting one morning a week at the Murray Senior Recreation Center. Over the
years, their numbers have dwindled down to two. Hand quilting, it seems, is
becoming a lost art. It’s sad that, while piecing quilts has never been more
popular, fewer and fewer people are learning to finish them by hand. It’s a
cultural loss, surely, but when I ask myself if I should try hand quilting one
of my tops, I answer, “Who has that kind of time?”
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