Scrapy Bed Quilt
05-17-2011, 04:03 AM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Grawn, Michigan
Posts: 643
Looks great! Very much worth the time it took to finish. I took 25 years to finish the top of a GFG. I still need to sandwich and quilt it. I am retired 1 year now and have started several other quilts. Only 1 finished.
05-17-2011, 04:25 AM
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 361
Scrappy quilts are the best! You are definitely not the only one who takes years to finish! Right now I'm trying to get a quilt finished up that I started for my daughter when she was in either kindergarten or 1st grade......she graduates high school next week! I'm trying to finish it for a grad gift! How lame is that!!!!
05-17-2011, 05:51 AM
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: IL
Posts: 2,671
Very pretty! I'm also a slow finisher. Work, kids, travel, crises...never finished my kids' baby quilts. But each have "bought" quilts (REAL quilts made by actual individual quilters-NOT sweatshop mass-produced pseudo-quilts) and mom-made cuddle quilts. Your daughter's quilt is so lovely, worth the wait.
05-17-2011, 06:02 AM
#20
Power Poster
Join Date: May 2009
Location: NY
Posts: 10,590
Great quilt and is that cute child in the picture the lucky recipient? Absolutely adorable.
And no you are absolutely NOT the only quilter that takes that long to finish a quilt. Every quilt I have hand quilted has taken at least that long which would explain why I have only completed 3 handquilted quilts and am working on my 4th. I have been working on this WIP since before I joined this board. I finished the piecing over 2 years ago and still handquilting away at it. Let's see, I bought the fabric for it about 5 years ago where it waited patiently in my stash for me to start it. I probably finished piecing it about 2 1/2 years ago. Sat around for a few months waiting to be sandwiched and basted and I have been plugging away at it fairly steadily since then. There are weeks when I don't touch it and then work on it religiously every evening while watching TV with DH. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now and am almost done with the center of the quilt and on to the borders. I hope to have it done in time to enter it in the local show here in September so am feeling the pressure of completion now.
And no you are absolutely NOT the only quilter that takes that long to finish a quilt. Every quilt I have hand quilted has taken at least that long which would explain why I have only completed 3 handquilted quilts and am working on my 4th. I have been working on this WIP since before I joined this board. I finished the piecing over 2 years ago and still handquilting away at it. Let's see, I bought the fabric for it about 5 years ago where it waited patiently in my stash for me to start it. I probably finished piecing it about 2 1/2 years ago. Sat around for a few months waiting to be sandwiched and basted and I have been plugging away at it fairly steadily since then. There are weeks when I don't touch it and then work on it religiously every evening while watching TV with DH. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now and am almost done with the center of the quilt and on to the borders. I hope to have it done in time to enter it in the local show here in September so am feeling the pressure of completion now.
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