Happy International Quilt Day!

24 hours ago I didn't even know that there was an International Quilt Day, but thanks to the internet and all the quilting bloggers, word got out, even to the UK.
I have the weekend to myself this weekend, and planned to put some time into quilting my red and white pinwheel quilt (however much I would love to be making more Nearly Insane blocks!).  I thought I would plant myself in front of the television and sew - but what to watch?
Thanks to the shout out by Missy Shay, I learnt that The Quilt Show, hosted on the internet by Alex Anderson and Ricky Timms are broadcasting their shows for FREE over the International Quilt weekend celebrations.  After registering and entering my new log in, I have even managed to project the shows from my iPad on to the main television using our Apple TV - I am cookin' with gas!

So far I have seen Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, Sue Garman, and Gina Perkes, as well as making some stitching progress on the red and white pinwheel quilt.  Besides a break to watch the first race in the Formula 1 Motor Racing from Australia, I will be watching the back catalogue of the Quilt Show and stitching.
Happy International Quilt Day!
 

Red and White Pinwheel Quilt - Hand Quilting

As I mentioned in a previous post, my hand pieced Nearly Insane Quilt is a portable project for when I am on the move.  If I have some quilting time at home, I am catching up on the backlog of quilts that need hand quilting. 


Suzi the Cat on the Red and White Pinwheel Quilt

This weekend, I have managed to put in quite a few hours of hand quilting to another of my red and white projects - my Red and White Pinwheel Quilt.

Hand Quilting Red and White Pinwheel Quilt

The top of the Red and White Pinwheel Quilt was English Paper Pieced (EPP), started in early 2009, and the top was completed in March 2011.  A bit of a quilting backlog has built up in the past few years, so I decided to do this one first as it is only a single quilt, and I thought it would get finished more quickly.  At the moment, I am simply outlining the red pinwheels, and I have designed a pattern for the centre of the blocks.  I am sure the remaining quilt pattern will evolve over time. I have managed to put in a good few hours of hand quilting, but it never seems to move on quite as quickly as you hope.
As I have moved my way around the quilt, outlining the red pinwheels, I have come across a few rogue paper templates, even though I thought I had removed the all the papers before I made up the quilt sandwich.  So in addition to quilting, I have had to unpick a few seams to extract the paper and then ladder stitch the seam together again.

Rogue paper templates !!!

Is there anyone else out there working on some hand quilting?