A Finish

Houses quilt with hydrangia

 I did it, I finished one of my quilts.  Encouraged by A Lovely Year of Finishes (Challenge) I decided I wanted to finish a very old project.  This project was started at least five years ago, probably more.  What usually stalls me is making a back and then actually quilting.  I bought a longarm machine about four years ago so that I could actually quilt, I also thought it would be a good idea to quilt for others to pay for my machine.  Well I now quilt for others almost all the time and my quilts wait patiently at the back of the closet.  Thank goodness for A Lovely Yearof Finishes, I just needed a little help, and a challenge or deadline will do it for me.

House Sampler quilt

Something else that stalled me on this quilt was deciding how to quilt it, I kept thinking something special, in each block together with trees and rocks and skies.  Well after doing a couple of customer house quilts with pantographs and talking to a few other longarm quilters I decided a pantograph would be just fine.  Thank goodness, otherwise this quilt would still be waiting.  I used the Blowing in the Wind pantograph by Irene Steele of Willow Leaf Studios and a light olive coloured thread.

Blowing in the Wind pantograph

For the backing I chose to go through my stash and pick all the larger pieces of matching fabrics and piece them.

So now it is quilted and bound and I am thinking about a project for October.  Stop by SewBitterSweet designs to see what others have finished or to join A LovelyYear of Finishes challenge  fun for October.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do.  It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. ~ David Allen