Faster And "Funner"

Day 173: After many years of making elaborate costumes and other clothing, I came to a conclusion: I hate machine sewing. However, I love to sew by hand. That said, I've pieced dozens of quilts with the machine, although I almost always finished them with hand-quilting. The machine-sewing phase has always been the part I least enjoyed, and by "least enjoyed," I mean asking myself over and over why I ever wanted to do this again. This new project is entirely hand-stitched, and what has come as the greatest surprise is the fact that it's going far more quickly toward the finished product, partly because each piece is fully completed once it's sewn in place...all backed, batted and quilted, done! In addition to these assembled pieces, I have an equal number done except for stitching them together. That part goes quickly, and I decided to do it that way in order to randomize the second half with hexagons identical to those in the first half. The photos show the front and the back of the quilt respectively. It's not only faster, it's "funner" to do it by hand!