I've decided that I'm tired of walking past this quilt every day, so it's time to finish it.
I did have grand plans to use this quilt as a hand quilting sampler, but I really don't like hand quilting through cotton batting.
I can see that pieces of the batting are pulling through with my stitches when I'm using the thicker threads like Perle 8 and Aurifil 12wt. And I don't want wispy white bits of batting on the surface of my quilt.
So I unpicked the small bit of hand quilting I'd done on the borders, and last weekend I just did four straight rows of machine quilting with my walking foot. They're barely visible, but I needed some quilting on the borders, and it was the borders that were preventing me from finishing this quilt.
There's still a bit more hand quilting to do in the middle, but it should be finished in a few weeks now. I'll be sure to show you the whole quilt when it's finished. It's just a small one - lap sized.
I actually started this quilt in a class with Kaffe and Brandon back in January 2018. My end result is going to be quite different from where I started out. You can read an earlier post about it here.
Now it's time for the Peacock Party. Feel free to link up a recent blog post below.
