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| 2014 Finishes |
Some details: Two quilts were entirely machine quilted. {Not well, but it got the job done.}
Two had a combination of machine and hand quilting, something you'll probably see more of. I just keep telling myself that some quilts can get by with a little less love from mama....
The other seven quilts (plus the table runner) were entirely hand quilted. Woohoo! That's a lot of slow stitching hours right there. Three of them (plus the table runner) were quilted in the big stitch style with Perle Cotton thread. Yummy. It acts like instant texture and so fast getting the quilt done too! There will definitely be more of that going on around here in the future.
And... the quilt on the far right bottom was the quilt I made with Sherri Lynn Wood's improv. instructions when she asked for test quilters earlier in the year. After hemming and hawing and breaking out in a cold sweat, I 'applied' to be a test quilter. It was a quilt to laugh and cry over. Seriously. And it did not get chosen for the final round. I am SO shocked. lol Lots of learning going on to make that quilt though and her book is definitely on my wish list now. I rather enjoy the crazy, chaotic end result of my quilt even if it wasn't exactly what Sherri was looking for. Improv. is certainly something I hope to do more of in the future, even if it's not in the traditional solids that most people use.
I also got kind of crazy with giving away quilts this year. Yep. By the end of December I had gifted eleven of my quilts, old and new.*sigh Some quilts are very difficult to give away but I preserved until my husband starting joking that we were going to be quilt-less. Yeah. Not happening anytime soon.*wink
So..., did you notice? I actually got the Quarter Circles quilt totally and completely done! Then I washed it like always. And it had a massive bleeding issue!!! But that's a story for another day. It still counts as a 2014 finish, right?
