Isn't it a great feeling to finish a quilt? Now if I could just make sure what the name of the block is.... (Grin) Over the years, we quilters have given many names to the same block patterns, or to variations of blocks. Kinda hard to know for sure. Here is a link to my previous post where I showed the blocks themselves: CLICK HERE!
And here is my finished quilt!
I used Aurifil thread for my hand quilting -- gotta love a thread that gets pulled through many, many times, and doesn't shred or knot up!
No tiny stitches here -- my hands won't do 'em, and I like the casual look of "big stitching," anyway! I stitched in the ditch to make a grid. My four-patches and my half-square triangles finished at four inches, so that is what the grid turned out to be. Picture of that later!
Here is the back, to show you how I used up the last few blocks that I had made. One of them was embroidered with my name and the date, for family (or future quilters) to see!
When I started this project, I mentioned Karrielynne over at Freckled Whimsy as the originator of this PIG (project in grocery sack). I printed out the directions a good many years ago..... feels good to have it finished and be able to use it for snuggling on movie night, or covering up to do some slow stitching! What about you? Have you finished an "older" project lately? Oh! And if any of y'all know the correct name for the block, be sure to let me know! Love,
. . . och, and it's sure I am that I had a visit last night from the little people! You know, the little people from the Emerald Isle! Came in whilst I was sleeping, they did! Aye, and what a frolic they had! I'll be showing ye the evidence, if ye have time to listen . . . It's a mission of compassion they were on, I'm thinkin'. They saw that we had no decorations for the upcoming holiday, bless their wee hearts! So it's to sewing that they started, and decorating me mantel, too!
It's amazed I am, that I didn't hear the patter of their wee shoes, nor the hum of the machine!
Look, it's King Bryan, himself, a-dancin' a jig upon me mantel!
It's an expedition in the closet they were on, I'll wager, when they found that treasured piece made by me dearly departed father-in-law, rest his soul. He was a dear one, indeed!
And it's all those shamrocks I be looking at now . . . all different fabrics! What fun the wee folk must have had, divin' in me fabric stash!
Aah, and it's the shamrocks they were tossin' about in the sewing room! It's a tablerunner that they were after creatin'!
Used the perle cotton thread and the "big stitch" quiltin', they did! Turned out as lovely as a summer morn in the meadow!
Aye, and it's glad I am, that the little people came to visit! Sure, and we're ready for St. Paddy's Day! (Which coincides each year with the day of our marriage, now forty-one blessed years ago!) Faith and begorra, I hope all of you are spending time in your sewing happy places! Don't be forgettin' the olde proverb.....a handful of skill is worth a bagful of gold!! See you again soon! Beannaachtam na Feile Padraig! (Happy Saint Patrick's Day!)
Love,
(Singing as I leave, "Mush, mush, mush, tur-a-li-anny!")
