I finished up my hand quilting on Flowering Snowball and now Vintage Spin has sneaked into the hoop. I hope to work on it a little this evening. I really need to catch up on some blog reading and answer some of the lovely comments left on my blog. If I don't do it on the weekend I don't really find much time after work to do it these days. I've been trying to get files moved over from my old XP laptop to my new one...I didn't realize I have so photos and genealogy files and other documents. And, of course there's Christmas. Thankfully my granddaughters were out this weekend and decorated my tree for me since I really hate decorating. They invited themselves and my grandson back next weekend to make cookies. So, I guess I need to add that to my plans.
There's always some hand quilting (and some eggnog and a little Christmas music) to make one feel relaxed at the end of a day. I'm quilting concentric circles and using the tiniest needle I've ever used yet for hand quilting. I can hardly see to thread the needle - I usually do big stitching but decided to practice small stitches on this quilt. I'm putting a little spin on things... I thought the concentric circles would give Vintage Spin some movement.
I'm using regular hand quilting thread in green, navy, and orange. I need practice...practice...
...practice. I'm hoping the tiny stitch practice will help me with some hand piecing I want to do some day on those Daisy-do Jen Kingwell flowers.
There's a whole lot of hand stitching going on today in blog land...go find out for yourself...
16 comments:
Your stitches look great from here! I love the circles you're doing.
I'm hand quilting the quilt for my daughter and finding it slow going. Many years out of practice... practice...
Lovely stitches. Do you like the square pipe frame? I have one but have not got the knack of using it. Might have to pull it out and try it again on the next quilt.
It's going to be great ... and think how much your tiny stitching will improve as you work on this great quilt. You are inspiring me to get my hand-quilting project going.
Quilting looks great to me! Keep up with the practice -- by the time you are done you will even be better.
I think the circles are a wonderful idea and your stitching is lovely! :)
Seeing your lovely quilt being hand quilted has inspired me to hunt out my square frame and start on a small piece.
Your stitches look great--so small..i am still practicing getting my applique stitching under control on my 365 circles....hugs, Julierose
SO fun to have another quilt in the hoop!
Are you drawing the circles or eyeballing it?
Enjoy!
My goodness such small, neat stitches. I love your colour choices also.
Love the quilted circles--perfect for those spinning blocks!
Your stitches look great! I also want to know if you are marking the circles or just going for it. If you are marking, what are you using?
Love the idea of concentric circles, your stitches look great from my view, love those blocks of the Vintage Spin.
Love the circles!
Enjoy your hand quilting this week :-)
Your quilting looks great. Enjoy your time with your grandchildren. It is great that they invite themselves over.
I love the circles. I also love tiny needles, except for the threading. I keep thinking I should buy some needle threaders, but I'm pretending I'm 20 years younger than I am and my eyes still work.
Hi,
Never thought to do snakes in any color; they just might be on the bucket list. Really like the blue half square triangles. Really, Really like the scrappy piled ones.
Great job. Thanks for the inspirations.l
Denise
P. S. Also love your lozenge quilt.
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