It is Sunday again and linking up with Kathy's Quilts
http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com. Time flies when you are having fun and not cooped up with snow!
Here are the supplies I use. I am using a big stitch with 4 stitches on the needle instead of 8 tiny ones. It will take 10 hours to go around all 4 sides instead of 25 hours with tiny stitches. Both needle pkgs are size 10. The Bohins are not as strong as the Jean S. Lyle needles. With the Bohin needles I snapped them in half but have yet to break a Lye needle. Jean has retired so I have no idea where to buy them. The thimble is Roxanne and very comfortable along with the metal disc for under quilt. For marking I use a #5 mechanical pencil and the Pentel Erasers. I take a turkey baster, add some beads then poke the eraser on so you can not lose it. A 12 inch square hoop made in Germany and I am ready to hand quilt.
8 comments:
This project is coming along nicely. I love blue and white quilts. Those butterflies remind me that it won't be cold and snowy forever...
Loved your blog post, and enjoyed seeing your project and your tools :)
Beautiful quilting, I have been doing some big stitching using Valdani perle cotton and really enjoy the process and the outcome. Yours is just lovely. And such a pretty quilt.
Love seeing your tools for hand quilting. such pretty blues you get to work with.
I love to big stitch too! And two color quilts are my favorite. Thanks for sharing the tools you use. I agree about needles some are way better than others.
Blue and white is such a classic combination - and this is going to be a beauty! Love your quilting - the square hoop's unusual!
Lovely quilt and nice mini tutorial.
Such a pretty quilt. It is good to see wonderful projects like this progressing. I love your big stitch quilting. Just wonderful.
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