Lucy Boston Quilt of Grace
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Not that I want to hurry the process, only it's a big friggin' quilt and there's HEAPS left to stitch, and well....
I've had grace on my mind recently, and this quilt on my lap the last several evenings. The previous two I have been SUPER SNIFFLY, so today my husband moved the sofa, then I dusted the windows, then he dusted above them, then he hoovered the living room. The afternoon was sunny and pleasant, so we left open the windows, hoping to air out the space. I just closed them, and have returned to complete this post.
Which was originally going to be about Nadia Chicken jumping the run door, cheeky gal! But instead I thought about this quilt, the only cloth item that lives on the sofa I didn't throw in the washer, LOL.
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| Nadia outside the run while her sisters desperately scour a way to join her. |
(Boy, I REALLY HOPE the quilt is not what's making me sneeze!)
This Quilt of Grace (QOG) is wholly hand-stitched. This QOG is made up of really scrappy Lucy Boston blocks, most of which were designed over seven or eight years ago, the remaining few sewn together last summer when I had COVID. After learning the Kawandi method, I applied that to this project, and even when the blocks don't meet up perfectly, I don't care. This is a quilt for me, unless someone falls in love with it and asks for it. If that occurs, I will GLADLY give it away, because that means I get to make myself another one, HAH!
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| Just keep stitching, I tell myself. |
But it's a gaudy thing, those Lucy Boston blocks made from not the prettiest fabrics, hehehe. Yet, it means a great deal to me, because I am doing something constructive with those blocks, not storing them in a tote for the rest of my life. I used a snuggly flannel sheet for the back, and oh my goodness, it's going to be an awesome cozy when it's done!
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| If Nadia scales the door now, more power to her! Hopefully this will also keep out any interested cats that occasionally loiter nearby. |
The grace part comes from how it's been constructed, kinda piecemeal, lots of peace as I went about attaching fabric as borders, then large solids, then placing the blocks and the hexagons. All on faith that in the end, it would look FINE. And it does; I think it RAWKS!
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| It truly rocks when the honeycombs line up, haha. |
It was a marvelous way to tone down the slightly wonky fabrics in the blocks, to emphasize their completion and not some groovy colour coordination, LOLOL. Nothing in this quilt jives, which gives it a wholly compatible with itself air. It exists for the sheer reason that it needed to, and that was ENOUGH.
Definitely a quilt of grace, and I haven't even started on how much I LOVE the hand-quilting process!
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| It's very good that I love the hand-quilting process because that's a lot of safety pins left to remove. |
Suffice to say, it's a project for the ages. Somehow other EPP quilts contain some smidgen of machine sewing. Not this one! Now if I can sit with it tonight and not start sneezing ferociously. Oh my goodness, please Lord, let all the sneeze-attack dustballs have been removed earlier today!
