With the Too Many Moving Pieces quilt completed, I dug around in some boxes and bins to see what I might work on next. All went well as I finished the last areas of that quilt, but I am ready for much more practice. And here is the UFO chosen… a red, white and blue house quilt.
I sewed the top when we lived in Colorado, so that dates it to 2000 – 2005. I remember finally deciding to use the acrylic templates that I bought at the quilt show in Tokyo. And in looking at the quilting I did do, I really over reached. I chose to use three colors of thread, which means lots of bobbin changes and re-threading and around the houses I did a tiny stipple, which I am not looking forward to trying to do again. I did not pin the sandwich well enough and the back is a mess. This will be the 4th machine I have used to quilt it! Yow. It has a lot of problems, but it will be good practice to try to do tiny stippling, not to mention all the straight lines. And I won’t be worrying about doing a poor job since that has already happened.
I also did this red and white house quilt too. Perhaps that will be up next or maybe I will need a rest from quilting houses!
I love this quilt pattern! That’s an amazing story about the history of quilting the first one–you should finish it just to get it off your conscience!
There is something about houses… I get it out to toss it and then I can’t! ;-D