Day 366: The top of the hexagon (Flower Garden) quilt is done but for adding white around the three remaining sides. The next step will be to batt and back it before settling in to the serious work of hand-quilting. Each hexagon will be shadow-quilted (i.e., outlined with a row of stitching) and the gold solids will each have a simple six-petalled flower in their centers. This has been one of the most enjoyable quilting projects I've undertaken in the last fifty years, although machine-piecing it wastes an astonishing amount of thread. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to making another one, perhaps from the surfeit of prints left over from the Kitty Quilt. "Cats and Kittens"....hmmmm, that concept has promise.
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