{"id":1443,"date":"2011-02-13T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2011-02-13T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:32:40","slug":"hand-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Hand-quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I’ve been quilting a little on my Winter White<\/em> Schnibbles top. I seem to have been picking this up and putting it down again for months. Which is crazy really, because it’s so small I should be able to rattle it off in no time.<\/p>\n

In the past I have hand-quilted, oh, I don’t know how many quilts. Lots. Queen size with intricate quilting. Somehow I seem to have lost the knack. Now I manage a couple of inches and then wander off to something more exciting. It’s a shame really, because there are few things more mellow and soothing than hand-quilting while listening to a good audible book or something interesting on the radio. When the children were smaller, I swear hand-quilting kept me sane. Sometimes it felt like the six inches or so of quilting I managed when the kids were napping was the only thing I had to show for my day.<\/p>\n

To get back to my Schnibble…It would help a lot if I could quilt a little more quickly. I’m a self-taught quilter and (at this point I have to admit that I’m ashamed to say) I’m a stab stitcher. That’s just between you and me – don’t spread it around. After stabbing my way through several quilt tops, I decided to change a few years ago and learn to quilt properly. But it just didn’t work. With stab stitching I can make super teeny weeny stitches – and I love the effect I get. It makes me look like a really skillful quilter. But when I try to work with several stitches on the needle at once, all I manage are big ugly stitches that annoy me. My expectations are too high now. And since I learned to machine quilt I want instant results. Which certainly isn’t going to happen here.<\/p>\n

So my Schnibble is rather stuck between a rock and a hard place. But it will get finished. Little by little.<\/p>\n

They always do…<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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