When I said to myself, “crosshatching would probably look good on both the 9P blocks and the stripe blocks, why didn’t myself say back to me, “Well yea, it will look good, but it’s going to take you at least half the rest of your life! Are you nuts?” And that is assuming that I still have quite awhile left to live.
Are you thinking that’s not so bad? Well, between loading this puppy on the machine, the SID stabilizing, and the crosshatching, this is as far as I have gotten on it. And this took me 7 hours. I’m kind of slow. And I intend to use stencils and feathers in all that other space you see. And this is how much is left.
It’s 110″ square. Yep, gonna take me awhile. This will be the Wednesday WIP project for quite awhile. OMGosh! What was I thinking?!
On the upside, though…this one is MINE!! And all the fabric in it is from my stash. However, it doesn’t change my numbers this week, as I’ve already accounted for it, in previous reports.
Ramblings From Randi, The Wild Rose Quilter 
But isn’t that the reason we buy longarms?! So we can do things like this?!!! Still much much much faster than handquilting 😉
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Oh, it’s going to look fantastic when you get it all finished. Can’t wait to see the Wednesday’s WIP reports! 🙂
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It’s going to be fabulous Randi! And it is yours, after all so the time at least is well spent!
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I have been looking for an idea for quilting nine patches..but I’m not good at LINES yet, so this one is out for me! lolol out comes the sketch book….Love to see your works in progress!
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Yes, but it’s beautiful!
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You will hate it until it’s done, and when you’re done you’ll love it!
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Well….if it’s for YOU, then you’ll love that you put so much into it! It is beautiful and if you happen to be just sick of it when it’s done, I’m sure I can find a home for it on MY bed…Ha!
You do such beautiful quilting!
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Because it’s for you, you deserve it to be exactly the way you want it. And it doesn’t matter how long it takes… you are worth it!!
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Listen to me, never ever plan to do miles and miles of straight line quilting. It is for the insane! I know this and now you do too. Looks good though doesn’t it? LOLS
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Great pictures! You can really see how quilting really makes the quilt. It looks labor intensive, but the result will be fab!
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It’s going to look great Randi.
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I love this quilt and I love crosshatching. I bet you’ll be thrilled with it when you are all done and think “this was so worth the time and energy” (or would that be ‘worth the blood, sweat and tears’ ? ;o) ).
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It will be worth the time when you finish. It looks beautiful!
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I think, even though you started it under false pretense’s, where the evil side of you knew what you were getting into and didn’t tell the innocent side!! It’s going to be beautiful!! It already is!! You are doing a beautiful job of cross-hatching and when it’s all done (drink lots of specialty coffe’s – make this a special time!! 😉 ) it’s is going to so worth it in the end!! I love it!!
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It’s beautiful and will be worth every minute! My philosophy is: I’m doing this because I like to do it, not because I want to get it done. It’ll be a treasure!
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I’m sure there is a lot of work involved. But I do love the effect. It will be gorgeous when you are through!
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I’m late chiming in here, but it is going to be just fantastic and worth every long hour you put in on it. The crosshatching is perfect for the quilt and you are doing a fabulous job with it! Hang in there.
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Hi Randi,
Thanks for the encouraging words on my doodling. I am still learning to doodle with a longarm effect. Hopefully, in a few years after I get my 830, I will be able to afford a longarm… hahaha.
Your quilt is looking so good! I can’t wait to see the addition of the feathers – it’s going to be fabulous.
Have a great night.
Hugs…
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That is going to be stunning! Keep pluggin’ along. It’ll go faster than you think. 😉
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but it’s going to look soooooo good!
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