Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Quilting Progress...

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I'm making more progress on quilting the 'Here's My Heart' quilt.  Slowly, but surely, it's getting done.  I wish I'd kept track of how many hours I've worked on it.  I'll have to do that on my next one.  I know it's a great deal longer than I expected it to be.  When I last shared pictures, I had yet to finish the Diane-Shiko in the center.   It's done now.   That took a while, but was pretty mindless sewing.

Center of Here's My Heart
Then I moved on to the first border.  I'm using YLI 100 wt silk thread in various colors to quilt the entire piece.  I started quilting the border with a feather design and had all the spines quilted in place as well as some of the feathers when I decided the thread color was all wrong.  There just wasn't enough contrast and you couldn't see the quilting very well.  Why spend hours and hours on a design if it wasn't going to show up?  So I spent another couple of hours ripping it out before starting over with another color.  It wasn't a lot of fun to take it out, but I'm much happier with the design now.


Of course, it's much easier to see from the back...


And here are a few closeups of the feathers...



The next border is scalloped and I'm trying my hand at some curved cross-hatching in it.  Again, this is something new for me, but I'm liking the effect so far.  Then there's just one more border which is the simplest one and I should be finished with this little quilt.  All in good time I suppose!  I'm certainly learning a lot and trying a bunch of new techniques.



Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. 
Proverbs 12:15 (NLT)

9 comments:

  1. I think it looks fabulous! You picked a hard design with the cathedral window quilting. It looks great! It'll be an heirloom for sure.

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  2. That is very cute. I enjoy my thread catcher!


    Nan

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  3. Beautiful! The back is almost as good as the front! Congrats!

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  4. Was happy to read "this small quilt" otherwise I'd be on my way to the .....bin with more envy than I could handle. It is just breath-taking, Dee. Keep up the wonderful efforts to learn along the way.

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  5. Amazing work! It`s so beautiful!

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  6. Dee, this is beautiful. I am missing my machine quilting practice.

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