Sunday 12 August 2012

Stitching Sew Stitchy

I am sat watching the Olympics, hand stitching my Sew Stitchy quilt. Marvelling at the similarities between myself and the athletes. Um, yeah, right! Well, I am watching the Olympics and it is stopping me from eating, all those fit people with flat stomachs - so something good is coming of it.

I am approaching the last 20% of the quilting task. Am I am still really pleased with how I decided to do it. For me the hexies work with this pattern and fabric. Maybe I just have hexies on the brain these days.


Unfortunately I am a bit worried I will run out of perle before I run out of quilt to be quilted. I may have to place an emergency order shortly.


And this is what the stitching looks like a little closer. (No collages again as Picmonkey is still not working for me. Why?!)


I am determined to stitch today until I am done, or the thread runs out - whichever comes first. Cross your fingers for me that it is the former, not the latter that happens.

Susan

21 comments:

  1. that's fab! what a gerat idea to stitch in hexies!

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  2. Oh, I love your quilting design!! Have fun, I hope the thread magically lasts until the end of the quilting!

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  3. So cute!! Your hexie quilting is ideal!

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  4. Oh wow, its perfect.
    I love all of your choices. It perfectly compliments Aneela's lovely fabric too.

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  5. Oh I love that, what a great idea! Hope your thread lasts until the end!

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  6. Clever quilting, really suits the fabrics too :-) Hope your stitchy desire runs out before the perle...

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  7. Are you just eyeballing those hexagons as they look great and are perfect for this quilt. I take the pins out as I go to make the quilt lighter and lighter to work with, are they needed once you have quilted a part?

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  8. Great motif! Works so well as you say! My fingers and toes are crossed but a re-order would be wise as it is a great colour!

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  9. You have nailed it with the hexy quilting- hope the thread lasted till the end x

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  10. picmonkey isnt working for me either - its been about 5 days for me? not sure whats up -- the stitching is gorgeous on this!! great choice and beautiful work!

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  11. Dedication alright. i don't know what I am going to do after the Olympics too...I was loving it!

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  12. I expect you have run out of thread by now?! It happened to me on my last hand quilted quilt... At least my shop is only 20 minutes away! The hexie shape looks fabulous!

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  13. Oooh this is looking goooooooood! Jxo

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  14. Oh my goodness, Susan. It's absolutely spectacular!

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  15. Oh wow, love how this is looking, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you (I warned you about bigging up the whole perle thing though, the shops might have run out ;o) )

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  16. Your quilting looks super. I just finished my first attempt at big stitch quilting using the advice you gave in your tutorial. It was lots of fun and turned out pretty good. Thanks for the help!

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  17. This looks so good and you are once again the queen of hand quilting.

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  18. the quilting on this one is inspired - and hope you don't run out of perle - but I have a suspicion you might :(

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  19. I absolutely adore the way you're quilting this one!

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  20. what a great idea and it's looking gorgeous! I think a just in case order of thread is required, I'm mean more perle cotton's not going to go to waste is it ;)

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