Slow Sunday Stitching - March 17, 2019

Not even an hour this week on the zombie kitties, I'm afraid.   I spent most of my crafting time working on things are not Slow Stitching.  

But at least it's a start of sorts

I do like the Hardwicke Manor hoop.   It has a slot in the adjustment screw, so you can take a small screwdriver and get it really nice and tight.  There's very little slipping of the fabric.  

I do think I'll like surface embroidery more with a better ground fabric.  This poly-cotton is very thin compared to my vintage pillowcases. 

 
Also did a couple of rounds on my colorwork sweater.  But most of the week was working on the old house - packing etc.

I will never hit the end of the Unfinished Object Pile at this rate.  I found another bin.   This one has un-quilted tops in it.   Four of them, and a bunch of finished but not finishing finished needlework, some of which will be finished as quilted wall hangings.  Most of them will be done by machine, but this one and one wall hanging will be hand quilted.

Once I get moved and get the quilt frame set up, this one will be hand quilted - by the piece in the blocks with feather circles in the plain squares and a wavy feather border.   What's weird is that I do not really remember making this top.   The notes are mine, the quilting plan is in my handwriting.  The leftovers from that blue on the left went into "It was 80s", and another blue is definitely from my grandmother's stash of vintage 30s and 40s prints.   I'm willing to bet I made this when JC was a baby and my short term memory wasn't logging much LOL.  

I would really LOVE to get started on this one, but I don't want to try to take down my frame and move it with a quilt on it.  That's could be a problem.
So this one will 'hibernate' until well after the move, unfortunately.   The wall hanging may actually get done first, since I can do it in a large hoop. 

I've been inspired to get back into hand quilting by the wonderful examples in the Slow Sunday Stitching round up (link to this week's link up). 

FINISHED: Crumb Baskets Wall Quilt

I grew up around quilters; both my grandmother and my great aunt quilted. I learned to sew on the Singer featherweight that I now use to machine piece. I learned to hem by helping to sew down bindings on my grandmother's quilts.

My mother, on the other hand, was a knitter, and she passed that craft on to me as well.  I started quilting seriously in the mid 1980s, moved away from it for a few years in the early 2000s, and am now back.

I had a project "in the works" when I got involved with the (now sadly defunct) Kansas City Historic Sampler Guild in the 1990s.  My quilting fell by the wayside when I got totally immersed in the world of historic counted thread needlework.    My project sat, partially quilted, until earlier this year.

I blame/thank the quilters at my church for getting me started again!

Front

Back

The pattern is "Crumb Baskets" by Marianne Fons (of Fons and Porter fame), the project was designed and started in a class by her sponsored by the Topeka Capital Quilters Guild in 1992.  Size is approx 28 x 28 inches.

It's machine pieced (both front and back) with a touch of hand applique in the basket handles and hand quilted.  It was finished on 3/15/2017.