Every night after Elly went to sleep and every morning before she woke up, I snuck in a little quilting.
(Elly cuddling with her younger cousin).
The 14″ hoop I bought from Amazon was just perfect for snapping around a section of the quilt and popping it onto my lap.
The stitches are not tiny and perfect.
It was difficult getting the needle to sail through the typical 3 layers of a quilt plus the extra layer of the Dresden plate applique. I could only load 3 stitches at a time.
Each piece of the Dresden plate is quilted differently. Some pieces have almost no quilting as the fabric seemed too busy so I just quilted along the joining seam. Other pieces had a simply motif in the fabric that I quilted around the outline of.
Other pieces had a repeating diagonal running through the fabric that I happily followed.
Though I had originally planned to quilt each piece of the Dresden plate the same with a 1/4″ outline inside the stitching seam, it was more fun to base the quilting design on the fabric.
As before, quilting by hand was a joy. I just might start quilting more often than my current once-a-year pace.
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