Well, I've been piecing up a storm over here. A quiet weekend (I didn't have to sing on Sunday) was just what was needed.
The top was finished by Sunday evening, yesterday I figured out and cut the pieces for the back, and by noon today I had finished the piecing of the back, which used up most of the fabric I had left. I'm planning to use a flannel sheet inside, and will buy that soon and then get started on the quilting; the plan is to quilt it by hand, which I like doing (though I'm not an expert by any means,) and I prefer the way it looks to machine-quilting, but it does take a long time. The rows will NOT be close together!
I took a number of shortcuts: this is not a quilt-contest sort of project (nor are any of my textile projects, for that matter.) But it will be on a bed this winter and being used, rather than sitting unfinished in a box, and that's great, especially since the first snow has fallen in Montreal and we woke this morning to yesterday's icy slush, now frozen hard. When winter finally arrives, it sure settles in to stay.
Hah! It sounds like Manon is the person who's talking in the description above. Maybe she is. She's certainly decided it's her quilt!
Posted by: Beth | November 18, 2014 at 04:02 PM
Ooose kitty are YOU? Ooose ittle wittle kitty? (Cannot resist.) A flannel sheet inside, how perfect for washing.
Posted by: Duchesse | November 18, 2014 at 04:40 PM
Beautiful work, Beth! I admire your patience.
I've only done freehand design machine patchwork on clothing items and still have an unfinished jacket in a trunk somewhere from decades ago. I've let my long ago sewing skills get very rusty.
Posted by: Marja-Leena | November 18, 2014 at 06:42 PM
Gorgeous!
Posted by: Frances/Materfamilias | November 19, 2014 at 09:26 AM
Simply awesome. I can stitch a button at the most so my admiration for people who can make an entire patchwork quilt is enormous. I always thought it was something 'other people' make and here you are making it, and that too by hand. Your creativity branches out in so many ways Beth, I am amazed.
Posted by: Priya Sebastian | November 19, 2014 at 09:48 AM
Beautiful!!
Posted by: Rachel Barenblat | November 19, 2014 at 12:58 PM
Looks great! (and so does Manon)
Posted by: Martine | November 21, 2014 at 04:52 PM
Wow, that's beautiful, Beth! And I see Manon has claimed it already.
Posted by: Leslee | November 22, 2014 at 08:28 AM
Looks great Beth!!! Hope to see you guys soon <3
Posted by: Chris H | November 22, 2014 at 11:23 AM