There wasn't much to celebrate but there was wine! And a delicious Italian dinner.
Back to the Sunflower Farm quilt! I did rather messy knots for the eyes and whatever those things are called on top of those stick things.
Bzzzz...
I finished all the appliqué and checked it at least seven times. If I find anything I didn't blanket stitch after I've quilted it I am going to scream!
I decided not to do the border suggested by the designer even though it is pretty. I just wanted something simple. I decided to sew it all on in rows rather than the traditional way of sewing borders.
Almost done...
Ta da!
Quilting next. I couldn't work out which thread to use. It's difficult when you have so many colours in a quilt but the beige one stood out the least so I went for that.
It didn't take me long to attach it to the frame.
I chose a simple wavy line.
This is what it was supposed to look like but I had giant gaps in the quilting and I thought I'd messed up by making my pattern too large. But it turned out to be a fault of the computerised system and once I'd finished quilting the whole top with the missing lines I rolled the quilt back up and quilted it again. It was a quick design and it hardly used any thread. I think the prep needed for each row took more time than the actual quilting on this quilt.
I finished it! Yeah!
I managed to sew through my laser light cord. Very annoying but it made a pleasant change from sewing my finger!
I've cut my binding and attaching that will be a job for another day. It'll be good to do the hand sewing part at retreat in just over a week's time. I had been considering taking the blocks to finish off the appliqué at retreat so I'm very happy that I'm much closer to the finish than that!
