Thursday, March 30, 2017

Still Quilting

Still quilting and also smoking a bison roast and some (hopefully) great spicy beans.

The quilting is going slow.  I hike, bike, kayak, run or walk first.  We go exploring.  I blog.  I work on my photographs.  I read books.  I mostly just quilt while watching TV now.  It is a very sedentary, though very relaxing activity and I am trying to get more exercise and do things.  And adding to that, this quilt is going very slow because it is a twin bed size and I am trying to hand quilt it with tiny, neat, straight stitches.  And a lot of them.
My basting stitches are the large dark ones.  The hand stitching on the back looks like this.  I have started in the center and work towards the long ends, and am continuing to work outward. 

Rag Style Memorial Quilt for Baby

This quilt was made from some of my sister's clothes after she had died.  I still have some items and scraps after making five twin bed ...