I'm currently in Texas, hanging out with My Girl and Queenie. I spent most of last week getting ready to travel and not as much time in the sewing room. But I did reach one big milestone. The quilting of Chilhowie was completed and I made getting it bound a priority so I had a second finish to add to my tally before we cross into the later half of the year.
Chilhowie was the 2022 Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt. I opted to make just 9 blocks, the quilt still turned out to be a good sized lap quilt at 61" x 62".
The backing is pieced using the blocks from the pieced border that I decided not to add along with a couple of older pieces of yardage from the stash.
This is the second quilt I've quilted on my sewing machine. The first whole quilt that I've attempted.
The quilting is pretty simple. Just diagonal lines across the center and a set of 3 straight lines in the borders. The stitching looks much more even and straight in the later quilting efforts. I've learned a large part of quilting on your sewing machine is figuring out how to manipulate the quilt so it doesn't drag when it's going under the walking foot. I'm not in love with the quilting part of the finishing process. But now that I'm retired, it just makes sense for me to tackle my smaller quilts. So there will definitely be more walking foot quilting this year. I've already got my next project to be quilted picked out.
Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts, Sew & Tell Monday, and I Quilted This.
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