Vintage Quilting

First of all – Yes, I know.  Dog hairs.

What can I say?  I have a large hairy dog.  And in years gone by (you will soon understand the relevance of this point) I had cats with fine furry coats.  I tried using a clothes brush before taking these photos, but to no avail.  So this is how it will look until it’s all finished and I can wash it.

I will wash it, I promise.

So now that the apologies are dispensed with, let me introduce you to what I’ve been working on since Christmas.

Well, I say since Christmas…  Actually I started it around the time my younger son was born.  He’ll be sixteen in May.

That’s the ‘vintage’ aspect of this quilting project.

But everything has its day.  And in the final two weeks of slaving away at the Christmas stockings, I knew this quilt’s day had come.  It’s no word of a lie to say that I was fantasising – yes, fantasising! – about how much better my life would be when I could move on to my beloved, wrongly-neglected lap quilt!

And so on December 26th I started quilting the long ‘interlocking heart’ border, which is now completed.  The template for this border was created especially for this quilt by my friend Jutta, an expert quilter, when she came to visit from Germany in 2002!  It has taken almost ten years for me to trace it onto the fabric and quilt over it. 

So as you will  have realised by now, this is another of my fabled UFOs – UnFinished Objects.  But read on:

It is my final UFO! 

Now I don’t want to overplay this situation.  I still have some UnStarted Objects lurking in the cupboard – project envisaged, materials bought, etc etc.  But I think you will agree:  Progress has been made.

Yours, smugly… 

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