The last couple of weeks I have been patiently working away on hand quilting my Dresden Chain Quilt. I finished that around two weeks ago. The next day I sewed the remaining jelly roll strips I used for the Irish Chain together to make a scrappy binding. After hand quilting for such a long time sewing on the binding went so incredibly fast. The moment I snipped the final thread I couldn't believe that I was actually finished.
I didn't wash it right away. I was still contemplating whether or not to quilt around each of the Dresden Plates. Until I made that decision the quilt was put into good use by everyone of us. Both Elmo and Mathilda love my quilts. They are the ultimate comfy space to take a good 6 hour nap. Elmo prefers to sleep on top of them, Mathilda prefers under. In the evening when Mr. A and I watch an episode of Dexter or two, we both snuggled up under it, because although summer is finally here (thank god the rain is finally over. I'm still praying for all the victims of the flood all over Germany) our apartment is wonderfully cold.
Two days ago I finally told myself, that I'm either going to wash it the next day or hand quilt it immediately. I settled for hand quilting. It took me three hours total to quilt around all six of them and now that it's finally finished and washed and dried regret not quilting the final bit a little earlier. It just adds the final touch the quilt was missing the whole time and it looks wonderful on the back.
When it was hanging on the clothes line to dry yesterday I called for Mr. A and made him look at it. "Looks nice." he said. "Finally done with it?" And I nodded. "And I have to admit I'm damn proud of it."
Because I am. It's my favorite quilt so far. And Mathilda's too.
