tiThis week many of my Chicago Modern Quilt Guild are in Phoenix at QuiltCon. Last year's event was virtual. Two years ago, right before the pandemic, I shattered my wrist and missed out on the event. While I'm sad to not be there, I'm thankful for Quilty buddies who do the best job of photographing the quilts. There is a guild meeting tomorrow for those of us not in Phoenix, and that will have to do. This quilt, Downstream by Yvonne Fuchs, hung at QuiltCon 2020. I bought the pattern and have shamelessly made it in almost the same color way. I'm busy hand quilting it, starting with the white and grey areas.
A few posts back I was working on a big woven quilt that will match my current bed quilt. And now I'm making the backing for this huge - 96" x 116" quilt. Above are three Art Gallery fabrics along with the black from the quilt. Somehow, these will be turned into the backing. I'm thinking I will hand quilt this beast, and its what is next in my queue. For any hand quilting I find that the Art Gallery fabrics are ones I like to hold for the 8 - 12 weeks that I'll be working on this. I used to ask my mom to do all my handwork because I just hated working with needle and thread by hand, How things have changed!