Finishing
The quilt top that I've had for the masthead of my blog for the past five years is finally completely quilted. Whew! If you look back through the blog archives, you'll see that I started piecing it in 2020, during lockdown. When I was done piecing it, I was so wowed that I used it up top there. But I stuck it away, and didn't quilt it for a while, mostly because I was intimidated by it. All those batiks, all those seams, and the wavy, ripply edges. But fast forward to September, 2022. I met Kate, a hand-quilter. We both joined the Fiber Artist group at our local library on the same day, me with my knitting and she with a quilt she said she'd started 15 years earlier. Just watching her made me want to pick it back up. But the only thing I thought I had to quilt was this top. I bought the backing and filling, and waited for courage. A few months later, Kate and I went to a quilt show in Petersburg of art quilts, and...
