Here I am, making the very last stitch of hand-quilting the patchwork on the koi project.
I began hand quilting this on January 9th, and finished on February 21st, so it's taken me six weeks, and (roughly) around 350 hours.
To give you some perspective on the labor, if I'd done this work for minimum wage ($7.25/hour) I'd have to pay myself $2,537.50. As a labor of love, however, it's priceless.
I've picked out the embroidery threads I want to use, so I'll be starting the embroidery phase next.
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It looks fabulous! It really does. I've gotten my 9 patch done thanks to Thing 1 letting me borrow her sewing machine. Mine died yet again and I'm tired of putting money into it so hubs bought me a new machine but it will be a week before it arrives and I'm so far behind already. The wife of one of the guys he works with has an industrial embroidery machine so I might go ahead and have something a bit intricate embroidered on the quilt. I'm going to hand quilt the 9 patch and the panel, but I'm going to have the border machine quilted. Since it's for a baby and will get a lot of washing, I thought that would hold up better. We'll see.
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