Erica's Stitches

Last year, in April, I was at a quilt show.  One of the best parts was admiring the quilted jackets that everyone else was wearing.  I wished I had one. Fast forward to a few months later, at a craft show.  I spied a quilted sweatshirt jacket.  The color wasn't quite right but I tried it on.  The sleeves were to short and the color looked even worse on me. Fast forward a few more months, while shopping in Target.  I saw a stack of sweatshirts and decided to make my own sweatshirt jacket.  I bought one and dropped it off in my quilt room.  There it sat for a few months while I avoided it. Finally I picked out scraps and started sewing them to the sweatshirt.  Gradually they all were sewn on and all that was left was the binding.  Since the quilt show is coming around again soon I couldn't ignore it any longer.  I couldn't decided on the binding and finally compromised on a darker gray.  I sewed it on. ...

The empty spools are piling up.  That can only mean one thing.  The quilt is almost done! I've lost track of the number of bobbins I've wound. I'll need over 400 inches of binding.  It's prepared and ready to sew on and, if I measured correctly, the quilt will be done! I've been working on it for almost 1 year and 3 months.  I have my next few quilting projects mapped out and they will be much smaller.  It may be years before I tackle another big quilt.