Cindy Williams came over a few weeks ago, brought a quilt hoop with stand to loan me, got me started from laying out the "sandwich", pinning it, and teaching me how to start and end the threads.
I wish I had a picture of us crawling around on my living room floor while we pinned the sandwiched layers together.
There are twenty blocks in this quilt, and I'm over half-way done hand- quilting it! Cindy has helped me twice so far, with a fun few hours of a "quilting bee " time together.
I was glad for that weekend getaway to Herriman, as my hands do get very tired. And my housework kind of suffers while I take a lot of time attempting to finish in a timely manner.
Lea Hurst, from Panaca, NV came by on Friday to pick up two twin-sized Nine-Patch pattern quilt tops that I got prepared to be machine quilted. She is the person who does all of Christie Jensen"s quilts. I've seen her work, and it's really nice.
Now, I have only one more stack of quilt blocks to assemble into a top. Then, once they are all quilted and bound, the rest can be distributed to the grandchildren of Martin and Marilyn Autrey. Two have been given away-- Nick and Kaylee have one, and Eric and Brittney Autrey have one.
THEN maybe I'll have enough experience to make/create a quilt or two on my own. Maybe?
Pink nine- patch
Pieces sorted on blue for the second nine- patch.
They went together just like the pink one.
Bonus-- I've been able to use up a lot of my fabric stash for the between blocks, sashing and backs. . . with a minimum of purchasing fabrics. Except batting. I've bought a bunch of batting these past few months!
It has really been gratifying to finish up some of my Grandma Autrey's work. She made SO many quilts in her life. She must not have had painful arthritis in her hands. Or was tougher than I am. My hands hurt!
April update: I finished the hand quilting the 2nd of April! Woo hoo!!
* See October 2021 blog post for more Grandma Autrey quilt posts.
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