I've finished hand quilting nine of the twenty-five blocks on the koi quilt, so this week I should hit the halfway mark with the stitching. Wherever you don't see safety pins in the patchwork is a block I've finished. I'm also saving the quilting and embroidery for the furoshiki in the center until the very end, as that will require a hoop and I want everything else quilted before I tackle it.
I'm still happy with my choice of backing fabric. Sometimes in the middle of a project I have doubts, but not with this one.
The other night I caught myself trying to stitch faster, and that made my quilting stitches larger. I was trying to get one block finished in a single afternoon, which is not the mindset I want for this project. So I unpicked the quilting in that block and started over (which is a bit depressing, but it was the right thing to do.) I want to slow down with my quilting, not speed up.
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The panel I bought for Thing 2's quilt came yesterday so I have to pull out all my 'equipment' today and at least work on getting that cut. I have probably until the end of May to finish the quilt. I don't want to rush it, I'm like you. Rushing produces odd stitches and I don't like that. I'll send along some pictures as I go. Let you see what's going on. I just hope it turns out okay. But also like you, I'll be picking things out and redoing if I'm not happy. Maybe no one else would notice, but I'd know.
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