Adventures in Hand Quilting

Hand Quilting “Go Boldly”

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Just wanted to share a quick up on my quilt in progress “Go Boldly”. This is a follow up to this post from March – Update on “Go Boldly” .

I am hand quilting it and really enjoying working on it (I put hand quilting the denim quilt “What Direction Do I Go?” on hold for now) and I’ve made quite a bit of progress laying it on my lap nearly every evening and working on it.

At first I was only going to hand tie it at each corner but then I decided to actual stitch the curves. Hand tying it did help stabilize it as it is nearly a Queen-sized quilt.

Here is the front of the quilt on the floor of my studio, all wrinkly from having it on my lap for hand quilting:

And here is the back of the quilt which was pieced from the leftover blocks and leftover fabric:

Here are a couple more photos of the quilting and Mariss @Fabrications has NO NEED TO WORRY that I will fly over to SA and steal her hand quilting teaching opportunities – ha! But I don’t plan to enter it in any shows and hand quilting it makes me happy 🙂

I am using some rainbow colored variegated heavyweight thread from a collection of thread that I bought back in 1999 at my first sewing expo show! Good thing I didn’t get rid of it – ha! I did use it “someday” as I probably kept telling myself to justify holding onto it 😉

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24 thoughts on “Hand Quilting “Go Boldly””

  1. It’s going well! I’m always ashamed of my first few rows of quilting and quite OK about it at the end. It’s just practice and your hand remembering those tiny movements that make it clean and even. Which is the main reason I start at the bottom of the quilt and work up: it means I’m mainly looking at the better work!

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  6. Great idea to incorporate big stitch hand quilting to enhance a basic tied-in-the-corners quilt! And more relaxing than the ‘old days’ of quilting where the focus was on tiny even stitches often done on a space consuming quilt frame away from one’s body.

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  8. You know how I love this quilt and the hand quilting is adding a special touch. Glad you are enjoying having it on your lap in the evenings.

    Thanks for routing me as the expert on hand quilting 😊🪡

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  9. Hand stitching is incredibly relaxing. I understand why you look forward to it each night. I enlarged the photo to see more detail and the variegated thread. When you’re done, even the thread will have a chapter in the story.

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