Yesterday, “Happy” (the quilt I’m hand quilting) and I took Girlie car to my local Toyota dealer so Girlie could get a recall part she needed. It’s about a 30-minute trip to the dealer.
I knew the inspection and installation of the part would take several hours of waiting, so I packed up “Happy” for this outing.
I commandeered a table and two chairs in the expansive waiting room and set to work–and that made the hours pass swiftly. Included were chats with people who were interested in this quilt and this hand quilting process. Some told stories of the quilts their grandmothers made for their grandchildren. ”Happy” is one of the 7 handmade quilts for my 7 grandchildren.
The orange threads you see are the longarm machine basting, which I clip loose as I move along. I am sewing grid lines down the lines of dark centers with darker tread colors.
By the time I got home early afternoon and organized my noonish big dinner, ate, and cleaned up, it was mid-afternoon. The day then turned lazy–no walk but to the mail boxes–but by bedtime, I was almost finishing the last grid line. And that all felt just fine. I must have needed a lazy day.
Next up, the big circles to be done in pastel threads. Then the centers of the circles.
And today is a rainy day, but I will walk in between, and I’ll sew upstairs on the 1920-30s quilt top.
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This is such a beautiful quilt and the name is perfect.