I've rolled and now I'm starting on the next row. This has the border applique included in it.
I prepped another block for Lucy this week but didn't get it sewn.
I have to admit I like the Lucy blocks when they're finished but this project isn't exciting me like I thought it would. Quilting is much more fun! I had originally said I was going to make 12 Lucy blocks and see if I was motivated to make more. I'm not motivated. The 12 block wallhanging is going to turn into a 6 block table runner. I'd rather quilt!
Linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Show & Tell Monday With Bambi, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, BOM's Away, Moving It Forward, Esther's Wednesday WOW!
Don't be too hard on yourself. A table runner would be great.
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ReplyDeleteLOL on the 6 block table runner. I hear you!!! Your quilting is absolutely beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of just doing the 6 blocks and have fun quilting it too then :) On your Pastor's Attic quilt... did you use a stencil for your 60 degree diamond background? So loving how this looks!!! Some have done their markings with rulers ... but I love a nice stencil. I know you premarked this top too .. right??? Kathi
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is coming along really nicely! I love the diamonds and you are so right that stitching in the ditch around the appliqué makes it puff nicely.
ReplyDeletesometimes that happens - in the past two years I don't know how many large quilts I started only to have them turn into table toppers or couch quilts - I loved Lucy Boston but there are others I really thought I wanted to make only to not make them!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stitching, great work!
ReplyDeleteYou are getting so close to the end of your Pastor's Attic quilt. I am excited for you. I have been following along with you for a good while as you progressed on both the applique and the quilting.
ReplyDeleteHa! I would much rather piece or appliqué than quilt... Your quilting is exquisite! No wonder you enjoy it so much.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful! I do believe this is what happened to me and Lucy! I would rather do other quilting projects! I would have to sit and work on it all day long and not interested in that. But some of the blocks are pretty and the fabric available now really make beautiful fussy cutting easier.
ReplyDeleteLovely block, and your quilting is beautiful. I, too, love quilting ;)
ReplyDeleteWow!! I always marvel at how much more the quilting adds to a quilt! It's a magical transformation, and I don't wonder at you enjoying quilting so much more than hand piecing, when you're getting gorgeous work like this done.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to your blog and enjoyed reading about your quilting journey. Your quilting is beautiful! I'm also a hand quilter, although it is getting more difficult because of hand tremors, but I keep at it. My mother was a wonderful quilter and I grew up in a small house which had a quilt in the frames hanging from the ceiling in the winter time. I'm also a farmer/FarmHer; we raise black Angus beef cattle and we are contract poultry growers for Tyson Foods. I rake hay, mow and weed eat, and most anything else the farmer needs me to help with.
ReplyDeleteAt this time, I have put my blog to "rest" for now, but I want to continue reading interesting blogs like yours.
Your hand quilting is amazing, Kathy! Beautiful stitching, both the applique and the quilting.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Exactly! This is our voice and our creativity lives here. Do what makes you happy! Table runner, eh? At least you gave it a go! *wink*
ReplyDeleteLOL Oh Gretchen I can understand you wanting to quilt more, I have pulled my Grandmothers 1930's quilt and in the evenings been curling up with it on my lap and quilting those wee hexagons, I find it so relaxing and such a joy to see those rosette grow in to finished rosettes. Your quilting is such a joy to see, love the crosshatch you are doing around the wee blocks. Cheers Glenda
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