Aves All Done
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The first finish of the year is actually the quilt that started this blog. Yep, I finally got around to quilting it. Back in 2018 I thought I would take on a quilting challenge, so I signed up for Aves , a Block of the Week quilt by Kathryn Kerr . For 45 consecutive Sundays, I receive the instructions to complete one block for the quilt and do a bit of construction on the way. For the past five years the quilt top has been sitting in my spare wardrobe, along with a pieced backing and enough binding to go around. But I have not quilted it because it was huge and heavy, and I had no idea what to quilt. Until one night last year. I couldn't sleep, so I was lying in bed thinking about quilts as usual and suddenly I had an idea. Concentric circles. Next morning I pulled the top out, had a look and a think and figured it would work. Because the top was so heavy (given there are so many bits of small fabric), I decided to only put enough wadding b...