Off the Frame-Another on It

A never ending cycle in this house.  As soon as I take one quilt off of the quilting frame another is always waiting in line to get on it.

Joseph’s Coat officially came off of the quilting frame last night.  I put it on the frame June 2 and took it off November 6 – I was gone one month of that time – so it took 4 months to quilt it!! pretty good – that is very fast for me.  This year my goal was to get done hand quilting two queen size quilts and I did it with 2 months to spare.

Joseph’s Coat was hand pieced and hand quilted.  I didn’t keep track of time during the piecing but I’m sure it was over 200 hours for sure and probably closer to 300 hours.  Hand quilting it though went very fast – just under 111 hours.  I will be putting the binding on these scallops by hand – I will show the finished quilt then.  For now – here it is off the frame and was ready for me to get it all trimmed down which I did last night – all that excess backing and batting on the sides is off and ready to start the binding – maybe tomorrow or by the weekend.

You might have forgot what the backing fabric was on this:

This morning I worked on getting the Bow Tie Medallion quilt on the frame – and it is there – took a couple hours.  I’m always glad to get that chore done – it is a chore believe me.  It goes faster with two people but I have rarely had help and have it down to working fairly good with just me doing it.  I also cleaned out underneath the quilt frame while I was at it and have things re-stacked – believe me this is cleaned up I got rid of a shelving unit that was collecting up dust, put all the tote bags inside another large tote bag and moved things around a little bit.

This is the variegated thread I will be using on this quilt.  I had one complete spool and another that had just a little bit off of it so I do believe it will be enough.  King Tut # 983 – various shades of brown.

I’m not sure how I am going to be quilting this quilt.  I have a stack of stencils to look through.  I have not had much of any plan in mind for it.  Normally I look at it for a day or two while I work on some other projects and then get started – which is what I plan on doing with this one as well.  I have a lot stencils here to look at.  I can rule out the big ones right away – the border is only 5 inches on this quilt – I will probably do a grid on the border and maybe a stencil for the areas in the bow ties that have room to work something in.  I’ll let you know when I get started on it.

For now – I think I will work on the Patchwork of the Crosses today and maybe Common Bride as well – I have a lot of star blocks to do on that one.