It's been unseasonably cool here so I've been working on hand quilting my vintage butterfly quilt.
I'm trying to make a replica of a quilt I inherited from my grandmother.
So far I have quilted around all of the butterflies in the center and middle rows and quilted around the green sashing in the center and one side of the green sashing in the middle.
I found a template for cables similar to what grandma quilted in her green sashing.
I can tell my hand quilting has improved just since the last quilt I hand-quilted but I'm still glad I get to practice stitching in the ditch before I try any of that cable in the sashing. 
I'm glad the weather has been cool and it's been too rainy to work out in the garden because I'm obsessed with getting this quilt finished!
Join us for some Slow Stitching this fine Sunday at Kathy's Quilts.
8 comments:
I am so jealous of your cool weather! We have had several days of temps over 95 degrees. I just got back from dropping off my daughter in town and we had to take her new convertible thank goodness it has good air conditioning. The butterflies are coming along nicely!
We have had a cooler June also. Even this first week of July is cooler, so I have been hand quilting too. I think your making great progress, just enjoy the process and before you know it you will posting about a finish.
I think your hand quilting looks great. Remember it is not how small the stitches are but how even that counts!
So much fun to watch the progress here :)
Nice to make progress on a big project.
That's a fabulous quilt! What a unique sashing! I love this!
Your hand quilting looks great. It is so nice and even. I love this quilt.
Congrats on the progress! No wonder you are excited about the impending finish!
Thanks for linking up!
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