Hello dear blog readers!Some of you may know that I have been working on a donation block for the Baltimore Applique Society online auction - Bits of Baltimore. It's fair to say that apart from my gainful employment, I have been working on this project exclusively - and enjoying every minute of it.
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| Discovered that my cubicle wall at work makes an excellent design wall! |
In the email exchange, Cathy mentioned that she had put in well over 80 hour of work into her donation block. That got me thinking, just how long have I been working on this wall hanging? Most of the time I have Netflix running in the background while I hand stitch. So I went back to my Netflix history and was shocked to that since I started work on this block - late February this year - I have watched well over 112 hour programming. That does not include the time I stitched riding in the car or listening to books on tape.
I am very happy to report that I have enjoyed every minute and every stitch! And will continue to enjoy it for several dozen hours more because I still have to quilt the piece. Currently I am marking the quilting design and expect to start hand quilting tomorrow. Yes - hand quilting. Even though I am a reasonably accomplished machine quilter, this block screams at me to be hand quilted.
So how long does it something like this take? The answer is lots and lots of joy-filled hours!
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| Woven Ribbon quilting pattern in the borders |
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| Radiating quilting design to emphasize the Peahen's tail feathers |
Until next time...
Best stitches,
Mercy in Miami
