Wow, that is a long title, but thought I would just do a little cattching up.
On the Delaford Quilt, I have reached the outer bird and flower block border row with my hand quilting. There are 22 blocks in this border, and so far I have hand quilted 4 of them - it does take awhile to accomplish. I have been tracking my time and so far I have 133 hours + some minutes in my quilting.
I am using a variety of color threads, only one of which is actually a hand quilting thread. Its a sample of YLI handquilting thread which they sent to try out and see if I like it. A new supplier of their hand quilting thread and I love the thread. Unfortunately YLI told me they will only be offering it in four basic colors at first (ecru, white, black and grey) but hopefully they may have a variety of colors. I am using this for background. For stitching around the appliques, I obtained 30 or 25 wt threads in a variety of colors and manufacturers. Some are Aurifil 30 wt, which the others are machine quilting threads from Coats and Clark. I find for all of them, I have to a silicon thread treatment to keep them from freying and breaking on me. Such a pain, I do wish someone would offer good quality hand quilting thread in a variety of colors !!!!
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| 1" stencil I am using for the background |
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| Thread tray |
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| Blue bird block - it takes me approximately 5 hours to quilt one of these blocks. |
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| Blue Bird Back of quilt |
I have also been working on the Once Upon a Christmas Time BOM by Gail Pan, completing Block 5. I just have one more block to make on this quilt and all the blocks will be completed.
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| Block 5 |
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One stitchery started for Block 6. The pink check is just what I call "extendors" so that the stitchery will fit in my hoop. A great use of unused binding strips.
Then finally, a quilt top, with only the binding hemming and label yet to do. This is for Timothy, my grandson, who will leaving for Clemson freshman year on August 15. He will be studying to be a park ranger and the quilt backing is a panel with 63 National Parks on it. I will show a picture of that in another post. Before sending to Long-Arm quilter. Not gonna hand quilt this one.
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