RBSH
Having finished hand piecing all of the Halo blocks (yes, already!), and having hand stitched the binding down on the quilt Bonnie made for Stitch Central's quilt drive, I was at a loss for handwork to do in front of the TV at night. I went looking to see what I could find and voila!
These CW snowballs were from a swap prolly fifteen years ago. I remember being smitten with them as I put the quilt together, and made those bazillion tiny HSTs. I christened it "Rhett Butler Slept Here." I knew it wanted to be hand quilted, so I got the cranky machinist (no longer part of my life) to machine baste it and started working on it.
When I unearthed it, I was astonished to discover that the center was entirely quilted and I had made considerable progress on the green innermost border. So last night I settled in with "Mercy Street, Episode One," and actually finished the quilting on that border.
This morning I marked the outer border. Somehow I don't think this is going to take very long at all to complete. My problem will be that some years ago I gave away all of my CWs, so I'm going to have to buy fabric for the binding. Oh, dear!
Comments
Always happy to share the stash and help with stash reduction :-)
Kathy Boehm
How kind of Kathy to offer you a binding of CW fabric. I was going to suggest you look at your dark fabrics and choose one that looks old fashioned. For my CW "Many Mini Fans", I found a black TOT in my stash that fit the bill for borders and binding.
Enjoy the hand quilting process!
Hugs!