Well, today was the day to start quilting on my own personal 'beast'... Amish with a twist III.... I have been watching videos and drawing plans on how I want to do it.
First off, I had to tame the beast (border) which was a little 'fluffier' than I like... time to steam it into submission. Then I tested thread tension... looks great from below and just as good on top.
first half of first border complete
Hmm... I guess there's a photo missing... of what I did in the middle of the border... well, you can see it and it's mirror twin in this photo...
the rest of the photos are not in the order I took them... but will still give an idea of what I spent about 4 hours doing today. Some of the designs have been changed from what I originally planned, and that's ok... also, if I stitch something and don't like it, I have no problem with ripping it out... I'm just not ripping out all the little oopsies I do... I'm just going to call them 'organic quilt stitching'.
My plan has been to go through and do all the navy blue thread stitching, then go back and work on the colors one at a time. But - I just couldn't resist working on some of the triangles with lavender thread... it was just a few blocks.
If I can work at least four hours a day on this, I MIGHT be able to have it done by this time next week... notice I said MIGHT. Only one doctor appointment next week and that's just to let me know the results from yesterday's stress test - which, as far as I could tell, I did ok. We'll see how my legs and back do over the next few days.
And now, it's time to fix dinner....
Have a great holiday weekend...
take care.......
ttyl........
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