While digging through one of my numerous unorganized piles of random belongings in my house yesterday, I came across a quilt that I started over a year ago. All that was left to be done was hand stitching three quarters of the binding. Now, I do not consider myself to be a procrastinator. In fact, with my anxiety level, it would probably be catastrophic to my health to procrastinate. I never pulled an all-nighter in college and usually had assignments finished a day in advance.
When it comes to quilting, most people would probably say that the quilting or piecing are the most difficult to complete. I disagree. I loathe hand stitching the binding. This was probably the last thing I quilted without machine stitching the binding, and may be the last thing I ever stitch by hand.
To date, I have finished three quilts. I found the tutorials for this quilt and my pinwheel sampler on p.s. i quilt. To this day, I am still impressed that I made a twin size quilt. I have aspirations of making a queen size in the near future. It just may get sent to a professional quilter to be quilted. I'm not sure that my 14 year old $100 sewing machine could handle it.
Twin Size Pinwheel Sampler quilt
Anyway, I have been keeping this unfinished quilt in a rarely opened closet. It was when I was looking for some batting to make some extra burp cloths that I came across it. Every time I go into that closet, I feel like this thing is staring at me and it makes me very anxious. But not anxious enough to actually tackle it. Well, this time was different. I have been thinking that some couch-based crafting was in order since I'm usually confined to the couch with the little one anyway. So I took the plunge. It took me an entire day since I had some cute little interruptions, but it's finished! Since my hubby keeps the house on negative five degrees, I have been snuggling with this lovely each night since it's completion.
The quilt's new home on the couch
Cute little distraction
The quilt pattern is synchronized squares from p.s I quilt. The fabrics were some fat quarters that I picked up from Joann's a super long time ago. I kept the quilting to a minimum so the quilt would be super fluffy. I only quilted over the squares--some with circles, others with squares--all done free-hand.
Love the quilt, but am especially enamored with the "cute little distraction"! Keep up the good work!
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