For some reason, posting finishes is hard. I entered this quilt into the Melbourne Royal Show before it was completed. I thought that the three months to due date was enough to finish the quilting I had just started and submit to the show. And I suppose it was, except it took a solid month of sewing for hours every day to ensure it was done in time and even then, I had my hubby drive me so that I could try and quickly sew on a hanging sleeve (which wasn’t used anyway).
It ended up being fairly stressful but it got done and it got a First!
Some more pictures
I used a variegated sashiko thread I bought from the AQC quilt show.
The thread ran out right near the end and I ended up using some red perle 8 to finish off the border.
I haven’t even tried to calculate the total cost or time spent but it was definitely a LOT. I was very happy to gift it to my sister at Christmas.
