I’m making steady progress on hand quilting my Owl and Hare Hollow quilt. Three weeks ago I had just started and was still feeling my way a bit with design etc…

I’ve now quilted ten of the blocks, each one has same size (more or less!) outer ring, then the quilting inside the circle depends on the design of the block. I particularly like the deer block, I’ve quilted a circle to look like the moon or the sun. The little dots you can see is from a Frixion pen I’m using to mark it, so a bit of heat and they’ll disappear.

There are forty-nine blocks altogether so I feel like I’m a fifth of the way through, but in reality I haven’t started yet on the big circles which will overlap on the sashing, they’re about 11.5″ diameter so they’re going to take a while. I’m using different sizes of embroidery hoops as templates for the bigger circles and I have a set of smaller round plastic templates too.

I might go back and quilt some more smaller circles, for example I could quilt round the hexagons the hare is jumping over, maybe a smaller ‘sun’ behind the flowers on the wheelbarrow or a big moon behind the owl.

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie