I decided to hand sew the whole quilt... and massively underestimated how long that would take! After many, many hours of hand stitching I finally finished the quilt this spring, and gave it to my sister (hurrah!) and now I finally have lots of pics to share with you guys (double hurrah!).
This isn't the biggest thing I've made (that would be my double-bed-sized giant granny square blanket), or the longest-running work-in-progress that I've completed (that title is currently held by my mini patchwork squares blanket, which took six-and-a-half years from start to finish), but it's still a huge thing to have finished and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. Luckily my sister likes it, too!
You can read about the making of the quilt here and here, or just scroll down for lots of photos of the finished quilt in all its festive glory...
P.S. I might have finished this quilt but I'm not done with quilting! My current work-in-progress (although I've not been making much progress on it during this hot summer) is another patchwork quilt - click here to read all about it.
The quilt is fabulous and the hand work in it is beyond fabulous! Your sister will enjoy it immensely, I'm sure. Of course, you're done with quilting ;) for now...
ReplyDeletebairozan - thank you! :) At the moment I definitely feel like my current quilting project will be my last but who knows? I expect the moment I get rid of my quilting hoop I'll immediately think of a fabulous quilt I want to make, haha.
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