No, not my Etsy shop. I'm under no impression that it will go crazy. Big stitch hand quilting. That's what I'm talking about. It was supposed to be faster than traditional hand quilting. But it's partly my own fault. A) I'm learning something new and B) I don't think I originally planned enough quilting. I thought it would be enough quilting, but once I started quilting the sashing, I realized there were still some big gaps between the quilting.
Which left me with a dilemma, what now? Do I go back and add more to my sashing quilting? Not sure how I would do that without it looking awkward. I could add more to the block quilting by adding another row of stitching around the outside of each flower, but I kinda thought that would look weird. And then there is the issue of the dark blue thread that I used on the front completely blending in on the back and not being able to see it at all. But it is the back, so does it really matter that much? I'm only going to see it when changing the quilt on my bed or washing it.
What I ended up deciding, was to add cross hatching to the background. It really is my favorite way of quilting quilts. But I decided to quilt it in white, like a trellis behind what I have already quilted. For the moment, I'm not going to cross hatch the border. I like how the white stands out on the back, but I don't want it to detract from the leaves I quilted on the front since the border and backing are the same fabric.
That decision will most likely be made once I'm done with the center. You know, when I'm ready to be done with this quilt or I just bought another spool of thread so I could finish it and I didn't even use a quarter of it. It's going to probably work out that way. But on the bright side, I didn't have to order white thread online, they had some at the local big chain craft store. So that was nice that I didn't need to wait for it to show up. I'm not done quilting the sashing yet, I have eight more to go I think, but I just needed something simple and easy that didn't require spinning my hoop 60 times just to do one motif.
There's been a little bit of EPP going on over here as well, but that's also well, slow going. But I knew that going into it. It's not my first EPP project. I've been wanting to sit at my machine, but it's nice outside because it's spring so something I noticed over the past year or so is that when the weather gets nice in the spring, I don't do as much quilting. I want to be outside planting flowers and enjoying the weather. Once it gets really hot, I'm back inside. But I anticipate quilting to slow down just a little bit over the next month or so.
But also, I Spy Stars is done! The fun thing about baby quilts is that they usually don't take long to quilt or bind. Much less time that queen size quilts, that's for sure! I'll have photos next time as it's currently in the dryer so that I can hand it off to my brother later this afternoon. But I will share this, every time I use a stripe for the binding, I wonder why I don't do that more often.
Happy quilting everyone!
