Is it Progress????

I swore that I would finish the Skye Quilt come hell or high water this summer.  Well I have been working on it for the last 10 days for the first time in years.  I am happy to report that I am getting some things done. 

I have now sewn down the background mountains and middle ground cliffs and hills behind the houses.  I am working on laying out the stuff in the foreground.  The houses now have windows and the foreground has rocks and darker grassy areas.  It was the foreground that I had so much trouble with……I blame it on over analysis.

Photo from 10 days ago:

Photo from today:

 

Chris

What I’ve Been Up To

I finished a quilt from a kit (Gees Bend quilt).  I was going to meander free motion quilt it, but I found that to be really difficult on my sewing machine due to the size of the quilt. (Almost 60 inches by 60 inches). I decided to do curved fans on it instead with a variegated  blue thread. This I did with the walking foot and had to turn the quilt a lot, but that was still easier than free motion for me.  I think in the future all quilts this size and bigger have to go out to be quilted.

So it is ready to hang in our guest bedroom.

I am also sketching out Amsterdam canal houses to make into a quilt.

Chris