Making progress

 

I have been quilting on this top for a few months now and recently completed all the center Star blocks.  There are 12 Star of Bethlehem blocks and an hour glass blocks between each star block. Everything is set on point.

  The way I have quilted it, the hour glass block disappears and makes the Star block look bigger.

Although my hand quilting is rather dense, and taking a good bit of time to complete, I am enjoying the process.

This is a a close up of one of the 12 border blocks and how I am repeating the pattern in the border block.

I plan to use a Feathered Wreath in the outside border and duplicate the horizontal and vertical lines used in the center top. It actually takes me longer to quilt those lines than it does the feathered corners. 

People always ask me how long it takes to hand quilt.  Well I timed a Star block and it took me approx. 15 hours to do one star block.  The small border block takes approx. 4 hours.  Not sure what the outer border will take just yet...but just to complete the quilt center I am looking at approx. 228 hours.

Still working on my Happy Quilt.  I have all the rows completed except for the last one which is a row of house blocks.  I like the bright primary colors in this quilt.  Since I am quilting it as I go, once I complete this last block, it will be finished except for the binding.


Continued progress on my Guild's BOM:







September Leaves



October Pumpkins