Many years ago the Giant Lone Start quilt was all the rage in blogland. I started one, and then ran out of fabric, then ran out of fleece for the backing, then kind of lost interest, but it has now sat in a box, maturing, for long enough that I'm in love with it again
Mind you, trying to quit it could be a severe test of our relationship - there is an awful lot of it, hence the wrestling!!
I nearly went with Hadley's 3 / 6 quilting - and it wasn't long before I wished I had, but I wasn't going to unsew anything, so I carried on with double echo quilting. I did each of the diagonals, and the vertical and the horizontal
And as if that wasn't barmy enough, I've gone on to repeat the double echo: so far I've done outside the star, and next I will do inside, and then I think she'll be done!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
I STILL want to make one of these. Love it
ReplyDeletethat is an enormous star, not seen one before
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a real quilting challenge, stay with it!
ReplyDeletewell done x maturing in a box seems to have been good for it x KEEP GOING it looks great x
ReplyDeleteWell done on the quilting I am looking forward to seeing it in the flesh so to speak! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is looking really great. Congrats on getting it off the ufo pile :)
ReplyDeleteOh - I'm still meaning to make one of these, I just haven't got round to it yet! Yours is lovely and a good inspiration!
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