If I have a chance to stitch today, this is what I'll be stitching. This is definitely slow stitching because all those seams are challenging.
Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. Thanks for hosting, Kathy.
--Nancy.
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Very Slow Stitching
I've quilted seven of the blocks on Cheddarback, enough that I decided I could begin quilting sashings between the quilted blocks.
I remember noticing a quirkiness about the quilting in the sashing when I watched Gay Bomers's video about Cheddarback. Can you see it in this photo below?
All the blocks are quilted on the diagonal about 1½" apart.
The sashing is quilted on the diagonal, too, but perpendicular to the quilting in the blocks. One
would think it should all align uniformly but it doesn't in the original, and it
doesn't in mine. The quilting lines around the red cornerstones between the large blocks don't frame the cornerstones like I imagine they should. I won't change it because I'm trying to replicate the original as much as possible.
If I have a chance to stitch today, this is what I'll be stitching. This is definitely slow stitching because all those seams are challenging.
Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. Thanks for hosting, Kathy.
--Nancy.
If I have a chance to stitch today, this is what I'll be stitching. This is definitely slow stitching because all those seams are challenging.
Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. Thanks for hosting, Kathy.
--Nancy.
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What lovely quilting stitches--all so even--you do beautiful work love that Cheddarback piece...hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteThank you, Julierose. In the sashing the stitches are more even than in the blocks (which have so many seams).
DeleteBeautiful quilting!! Are your hands sore?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jennie. The quilting in the sashing looks better than in the rest of the quilt. My hands don't get sore as much as my fingertips. But then I don't quilt for long periods of time, perhaps an hour at the most in one sitting.
DeleteI love it that you not only worked so hard to reproduce the blocks' fabrics---you are also studying and replicating the quirky quilting. It is delightful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lizzy. I'm not sure I'm very accurate about the quilting. It was hard to figure it out with only glimpses of the quilt in the videos.
DeleteCheddarback does indeed look challenging but what a beautiful quilt it is. Your quilting is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Kim. I think Cheddarback is a quirky quilt with such an odd variety of blocks, but I do like it a lot!
DeleteThis looks wonderful. No, I hadn't noticed the alternate quilting on the sashing. It must be so fun to sit down and immerse yourself in this project. I'm so looking forward to start quilting CB. I thought I'd be able to start it once I got Sweet Land of Liberty done but one of my granddaughters has rooked me into making a Halloween quilt so things have been put on hold. (The things we do. . . )
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robin. I'm enjoying this quilt but I find I look forward to the easier-to-quilt blocks a little too much. Haha.
DeleteOh, that quilt you made with your granddaughter is just wonderful! (The things we do... and sometimes the sweet memories that are created, too....) And you'll get to CB soon. You're probably almost finished with SLoL, aren't you?
I am handquilting a sampler quilt... though not vintage it is taking me time d/t seams and different fabric weights too! Very tough but I am taking frequent breaks and have other projects on the side to work on too :) Love your work on this sampler reproduction of yours :) kathi
ReplyDeleteIt's such fun to make sampler quilts but in the midst of the making I forget about the difficulty of quilting through all the seams. I hope your quilt is coming along well and that you're enjoying it, Kathi. Thanks for your comment about my quilt.
DeleteI went to your blog but your most recent post is from June. Do you have another blog? With photos of your quilt, maybe? Thanks.
Your quilting is beautiful and I doubt anyone would notice the anomaly between the blocks and sashings after it's finished. It's a gorgeous quilt!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Pat. I agree, I doubt anyone will notice the unusual quilting pattern except someone who's looking to see details (as I was on the original Cheddarback quilt). The quilting on the sashing looks much better than the quilting in the blocks with all the seams. I don't know how the quilters of generations ago maintained regular stitching through seams!
DeleteEnjoy your quilting. What you have completed looks very pretty. That "wonkiness" would bother me, but that is because I am very symmetry minded. I am actually thinking of removing some quilting that I started a couple of years ago, because I don't like how the cross-hatching alligns. I am trying to just "let it go".
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cathie. To be honest, if I weren't copying/trying to reproduce an old quilt, the wonkiness would bother me, too. If I'd I weren't copying I would have figured out a way to make the quilting even and symmetrical.
DeleteIt sounds like a big job to un-quilt but if it bothers you as it is I'm sure it will be worth it.
I put in an hour of hand quilting, completing the border on a little quilt today. about an hour is all my old hands can tolerate these days for hand work. So happy for you that you still can, and you do a beautiful job!
ReplyDeleteThank you, QultGranma. I can't usually do any more than an hour, either, especially on this quilt. Good for you to do as much as you did with the quilt you were working on.
DeleteSlow stitching but will be so worth it in the end!
ReplyDeleteI know it will, Cynthia. I just keep at it and I know it will eventually be finished.
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