Still Quilting, and Quilting, and Quilting Design Board Monday

Well its a week later and let me tell you, I've worked myself up into a hand quilting tizzy!  First I would like to thank everyone for their encouraging comments on getting this project done on time for the fair.  It really helped!  Still, it was hard - I mean - really - hard to sit down at the frame for long periods of time.  I mean who wants to be sitting there hand quilting when there is a 5 day 90+ degree heat wave in progress.  Then to top it all off, our little foster kitty, Kali who is now 7 weeks old, was constantly jumping onto the frame and attacking my needle.  I swear I must have taken her off that frame a hundred times this week.  Finally by the weekend, she was content to sit on my shoulder and watch me quilt.

Through all the trials, I persevered.  I managed to quilt a total of 23 hours this week.  Sitting still is sooooooo much harder then it looks.  I remembered to get up and stretch but I must be hunching my shoulders  because I have a soar spot in between them.  My hands feel fine but I have a quilter's callus to prove that I've been putting my needle time in.  

So far I've quilted 50" of this drag-along quilt.  I've got eight days to finish up the remaining 40" and get it bound.  Thank God I decided against bordering the dang thing.  I mean who likes borders anyways - they are a bugger to get straight - I never know how to quilt them and if I wanted a frame around my work I would have taken up watercolors!  Hmmmmmmm watercolors is looking mighty good right about now. 

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