When your good quilting friend is in a bit of a internet connection pickle, you step right on up and help host her weekly quilting linky! Gemma at Pretty Bobbins hosts a quilting linky each Thursday for you to link up any free motion or other quilting posts from the week. It’s kinda ironic that she asked me, considering that the actual quilting is one of the most daunting tasks of the whole process! I have several quilt tops lying around awaiting to be basted and quilted.
Like my Easy As ABC quilt. The backing is finished, the top is finished, I have the batting all ready to piece together (I can only buy 1 metre wide cotton batting here!)… I’m just so scared to start the process. This thing is the biggest I’ve made yet at over 60″ x 84″, and my machine is a basic entry-level Elna with a throat space of about 6″. Can you see my issue?! This thing has been hanging around since January!!
I did actually get a quote from Gemma after the gorgeous work she did on my Bright Sky quilt, but then my husband said that money could go towards a new sewing machine to quilt it myself. Which has then kinda turned into money for QuiltCon, ahem…
The other scary part of quilting for me is that my (borrowed) sewing table is the wrong height. We had to jack it up a little due to a bar underneath that threatened to break my kneecaps if I bashed them into the thing anymore, but now it’s unergonomically high. So my neck and shoulders pay for any long periods of sewing or quilting.
And yet having said all that, the last quilt I finished quilting was the quilt for the Lala Salama Quilts for Kenya drive. Which I seriously literally just realised is about the same size as my ABC quilt, and yet I managed…
Each row alternates in pattern from vertical, horizontal or diagonal “squiggles”. Hmm, I’m feeling a little stupid right about now!! But on the other hand, my fear of the ABC quilt is melting away and the excitement at finally finishing it is growing. Ain’t that the process of quilting! So, if you’ll excuse me, I have some batting to piece and a basting session to begin!
In the meantime, please link up your latest quilting posts and visit at least 3 other linkers! And let me know what’s the longest you’ve procrastinated quilting a top so I don’t feel so bad about my 7 months.
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Leanne says
Well, I’ve never completely procrastinated on quilting a top, but I did let my scrappy log cabin take me 16 months to quilt because I kept working on other things, coming back to the log cabin, working on other things…It’s done now, though, and I’m just waiting for a good day for pictures so I can post about it. Have fun quilting your ABC quilt!
Aoife says
I haven’t procrastinated quilting yet, though I did procrastinate burying threads on the project up there for four months. I tend to try and convince myself that fabric will cut itself or that quilt tops will baste themselves, hasn’t actually happened yet though… Normally once I get piecing I stick with a quilt, though if it’s only for myself it can get pushed to one side if more important quilts for other people come along. The one exception to that rule is a quilt for my sister, which has been stuck in piecing limbo for a year now 😮 I feel quite bad about that one!
Diana @ Red Delicious Life says
I’ve just hit the 8 month mark on a quilt top so I’ve got you beat by a few days. I’m confident that it’s going to sit hanging in the closet for another 2 months or so since I have other projects that appeal to me more.
Sarah Goer says
Get ready to feel better… The first shop hop I participated in had a mystery quilt. I think I finished the top promptly. That was in 2003. It’s not yet quilted. Yup. 10+ YEARS. I have a variety of excuses, but the biggest issue at the time was that I wanted to free motion quilt it and I didn’t know how yet. I learned in early 2012. I’ve free motioned 4+ quilts in that time but somehow the top (that I love) hasn’t made it to high enough priority to work on it. Oh, and I want to piece a back for it. There’s a glimpse of it in a bin in my last post. 😉
Alyce says
Haha, woah, ok, you win!!