I left work early on Friday to go home and whip up four additional blocks for my Common Threads quilt and to put the quilt top together. I was back at the sewing machine at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday finishing up the quilt top and quilting. Besides an exercise and dinner break, I finished up around 10 pm last night. It was a long day.
There were also two special quilter elves that helped me get this job done. This is the largest quilt I have ever done and working with so much fabric was a tough, sweaty job for this hot labor day weekend. It was a lot of work but I am so excited to have it finished and on my bed. My quilter elves really made the process so much easier, so thank you!
I probably could do some additional quilting in each of the individual blocks to reinforce it better but I am going to put that off for another weekend. The quilting will blend in with some of the blocks better than others and I need to work myself up to sewing over some of these gorgeous blocks. Any suggestions on how to incorporate additional quilting without detracting from the blocks would be greatly appreciated.
5 comments:
well i'll be....i couldn't even imagine how these blocks would look together...it's amazing...simply amazing. do you love it?
awesome!! you are so freaking talented!
No way! I can't believe you finished your quilt already!!! It looks fabulous! The white sashing really pulled everything together. It looks so great. Now I need to get started on quilting my quilt...you're making me look bad, especially because I've had mine waiting in the wings for quite a while :)
Really, this is so great!
I LOVE it!!!
my oh my it's just beautiful! this is the first time i've seen my quilting work all finished up like that, and the blocks are just amaazing! what a project, and i love it in your bedroom! hooray!!! common threads works!
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