So about four years ago I was at the Phoenix Quilt Craft and Sewing Festival. I was there with the Lacey Ladies of Arizona doing a lace making demonstration.
Throughout the festival there was door prize drawings for all visitors at the show. I was surprised to have my number called. My prize? A quilted hot pad kit.
The kit stayed in its packaging for about a year. Then out of the blue I got the itch to pull it out and cut the pieces. It would be another year before I actually sewed the pieces together. Fast forward to yet another year and here I am finally getting around to hand quilting the thing.
I've been using the time I spend waiting for my daughter at her after-school dance class to stitch. To keep from getting distracted, I've been stitching in the car.
I decided to quilt in the ditch on this. Mainly because it sounded simple and also it would be easy to hind my mistakes. (or so I thought).
At the start I was way off the mark in my hand quilting. But I just kept on stitching. . .
But, by the time I got around to the other side of the piece, my stitches had already shown signs of improvement.
Hopefully, now that I'm on a roll here, it won't take another year to complete this piece.
Throughout the festival there was door prize drawings for all visitors at the show. I was surprised to have my number called. My prize? A quilted hot pad kit.
The kit stayed in its packaging for about a year. Then out of the blue I got the itch to pull it out and cut the pieces. It would be another year before I actually sewed the pieces together. Fast forward to yet another year and here I am finally getting around to hand quilting the thing.
I've been using the time I spend waiting for my daughter at her after-school dance class to stitch. To keep from getting distracted, I've been stitching in the car.
I decided to quilt in the ditch on this. Mainly because it sounded simple and also it would be easy to hind my mistakes. (or so I thought).
At the start I was way off the mark in my hand quilting. But I just kept on stitching. . .
But, by the time I got around to the other side of the piece, my stitches had already shown signs of improvement.
Hopefully, now that I'm on a roll here, it won't take another year to complete this piece.
