Ow. My fingers.
The Stitched in Color hand-stitched class has started, but the night I was going to pre-wash all my fabric (I don’t normally, but she said we should for our hand-stitched quilt), we found out our dryer was broken. Ugh. So I’ve been dealing with that all week. It should be fixed tomorrow, fingers crossed!
Speaking of fingers, to get into the spirit of the class, I decided to handstitch my pillow for the Sew, Sew Modern swap. It turns out hand quilting through paper-piecing (think: lots of seams) is hard. I have one thimble, but there are four fingers that were getting sore from the stitching. I ended up deciding to save my thumb, so now I just have a sore index, middle and ring finger on my left hand.
But, I’m done with the stitching, and I’m really pretty pleased with it! It’s not perfect in any remote sense of the word, but it was fun, and I definitely got better at it as I went.
I’m going to finish it up by doing some machine quilting in the linen area, and then make it into a pillow! I started this project back before our guild retreat (so, started in October!!) so it will feel REALLY good to have this off my list. To be fair, I didn’t work on it for 2 months in between, but still. I’m ready for something new.
-Anne
I love this Anne. And the hand quilting in alternating colours looks so lovely.
I haven’t washed my fabric for Handstitched. I know I should, but… I mean I never claimed to be anything other than a lazy quilter!! Lol.
I’m about to cute my first piece of fabric… Eek! I’m nervous! Make sure you show how you’re project is going!
E xx
Aww, thank you!
I normally don’t pre-wash, but… I have trouble not following orders. hahaha I ended up washing them at home and drying them at the laundromat. Maybe next week the dryer will really get fixed? I miss having access to it!
Did you cut into your fabrics?! I’m having trouble facing the dogwood blossom but finally tackled the needle book.
I know the feeling! It’s a matter of getting calouses on your fingertips: it makes the next hand stitching projects less painful
I think the callouses are starting to form now, actually.
I should take the violin back up, it’d help!
It’s so pretty
Love the hand=stitching touches for the cranes. Very, very nice.
Thank you! I feel like it was worth the pain in the end. Now I just need to tackle the zipper and make it into a pillow and it’ll be DONE!