Quilt.... final step...

I had a pattern for my quilt...and was worried about the border.
I had made the quilt one row bigger so I was not sure if I could get the border to fit properly...but it worked out fine..

One last thing to do...is the quilting...
I am going to hand quilt it and went with a hoop instead of a quilting frame...
then I can quilt when and where ever!

 It's been taking me about an hour a square to quilt... won't take to long..................

Quilting Follow up...

A few weeks ago I did a post on a quilt I was working on.
Well it was going fairly well. I had everything cut!

All my Irish Chain Squares were made...

All my squares made...all my plates put together...

Ready to put them on the squares.....

I ended up with Dresden Plates...that did not want to cooperate with how the instructions said!!!
I put out an SOS to a quilting blogger and got numerous responses on how to fix my problem...

The ideas worked...and I have my first completed Dresden Plate square ready....
It's not perfect...but I'm happy with it!!

Now I only have 11 more to do...
 
I don't think this quilt will go together as fast as I had thought it would!

Patchwork Quilting

Well it has been MANY years since I have worked on a patchwork quilt. Thirty five years ago I took a quilting course. I did a of couple quilts ...even hand quilted them.

Then quilting really came in...and everyone seemed to be quilting and I lost my desire to buy cloth ...just to cut it up into pieces and sew it back together...
well....never say never cause here I am....cutting up fabric to make a quilt.

I have the easy blocks completed...Now I'm started on what looks to me like difficult blocks...
I'll keep you posted as this project progresses....