The beginning of 2019 has been jam full of finishing off some really large projects that have been on the go for longer than my blog hiatus (I thought we agreed we weren't going to mention that), and as I originally set up this blog in order to track my progress and keep me a little accountable to myself - here I am again!
The first project that I'm going to blog about that finally got finished this year is my ten year quilt project - wowsers, that was a long 10 years!
It had a number of stalls and also moved house a number of times (9 house moves in total and between 5 countries!), so I'm really pleased to finally be able to call it finished and have it on the bed.
Here it is being held up by my three trusty helpers.
I quilted it on my home machine using techniques from the book Walk: Mastering Machine Quilting With Your Walking Foot by Jacquie Gering. I found this a really useful book, and although the quilt is huge (220cm x 240cm ) I managed to do it on my machine.
I also decided to label my achievement by machine embroidering a bit of information about the quilt itself and some words to remember:
"It is astonishing how long it takes to finish something you are not working on"
As you can see from the picture, the back drifted a bit when I was quilting, but a bit of extra fabric pieced in made it alright and has added to it's imperfect, scrappy nature.
Onwards - what's next for the finished pile?
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