Happy Sunday to you all! I hope you have had or are having a wonderful day!
Let me introduce you to my oldest UFO (unfinished object). This is Decades of Stars. Now I will not go through all the details today as to why this has taken way too long to finish but I just want to let you see the start. I will be posting photos of this over the next few weeks as I continue to work a little bit each day on it alongside my other projects.
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| Loading of the quilt onto my hand quilt frame |
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| Ready to start quilting life into this baby |
These are a couple of photos as I was loading this on the frame a couple of weeks ago!
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| Threads for stitching |
These are the threads I had purchased several years ago, they are Superior Threads Treasure hand
quilt thread.
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| Cable for the border |
This is the border as I started to work on it again. This quilt had been on the frame a few years ago but was removed as I had more pressing deadlines.
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| Border complete |
Border was completed during the week.
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| Side border started |
This is the start of the right hand side border.
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Start of the main body of the quilt
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After a few hours it is starting to look quite ok and I am starting to get excited for this project again.
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| where I am tonight, I am loving how this is looking |
And this is where I am quilting tonight. This quilt is mainly all Debbie Mumm fabrics. It does have very special memories which I will reveal with the completed quilt as soon as possible. So what are you stitching up this Sunday? I will be linking this
Slow Stitching Sunday and would like to thank Kathy for hosting this link up once again.
Have you heard that I am hosting a Winter Mystery quilt along? If you would like to join in please check out the featured post on the blog. Plus here is
Link to the clues so I hope you can join in.
So Until later in the week take care and have a great day and remember to give a smile away! :)
Wendy.
LOVELY stitching; I like the warm colors ; enjoy the day ! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Deb, it's been good, I feel a good sleep coming on.
DeleteIt's always nice to see handquilting! Your mystery quilt sounds so tempting!
ReplyDeleteYes I love my hand quilting, oh I would love to have you join the mystery, it doesn't take long to do each clue.n
DeleteThe quilted cable looks amazing! I love quilting a cable! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I love cables in most things, always was drawn to cable jumpers etc
DeleteThe stitching around the boarder is lovely
ReplyDeleteThanks Faye, it's been fun
DeleteYour quilt has a very dimensional look. I like!
ReplyDeleteThanks Karen, I was trying for that for hubby but didn't realise I was using wrong colours for his colour defective disorder
DeleteHow do you like that thread?
ReplyDeleteIt quilts well but I think I prefer my aurifil thread, plus I needed to get different needles as it was a bit thick for the normal small between needles I normally use
DeleteLove your border design. Enjoy the stitching as it gets cold where you are.
ReplyDeleteThanks Deb, I don't get really cold as my frame is very close to the wood heater....I worked it all out well didn't I! Hahaha
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