A Handmade Quilt and A Touch of Hearts....

 Hello dear readers, Popping in  with a quick update on the progress of Emma's baby quilt. I am having so much fun hand sewing this quilt I can not tell you. If you haven't done one without a sewing machine, try it, you will fall in love. It's relaxing, rewarding, just all around the best way I have made a quilt. I like the way the pattern is coming together, although I haven't decided whether I am going to hand quilt the top once it's put together or machine. It depends on the pattern I choose.

I close this post today with this gorgeous photograph of 3 young cancer victims who didn't know each other. Yet on the day of the photograph, seemed to capture a moment of just how precious a similar connection can embrace the soul without ever meeting. God Bless these little ones who struggle daily with there fight against cancer, may they win there battle and live long lives.

Hand Sewing a Quilt...

I've been working on the quilt for little Emma Ann and must add it's going really well, in fact I decided to do it all by hand. Yes, I am hand stitching the entire quilt, no sewing machine at all. Although I have one I get so annoyed at changing everything moving the fabric around and such...and as you know I love the Amish way of life. I do a lot of things around my home just as they do, like washing my clothes, gardening to fill my cabinets to lower cost of groceries. 

I have done extensive research on Amish quilting by hand and have to say I am so much more pleased with the out come of this quilt compared to machine stitching. According to the Amish a machine quilt looses value with time where as a hand stitched gains with time. By hand stitching a quilt also tends to last longer, they should not be washed or stored in plastic only a sheet. Washing a hand stitched quilt is not recommended merely taking it outside after a snow and whipping it up and down against the snow will freshen the quilt.

I can not express how easy and rewarding hand stitching a quilt really is when working on it, not only is it relaxing but also seems quicker. I am really enjoying this quilt and plan on making more the same way. I have the top just about completed, once I get the quilt ready to sew the batting and back together I will show a photograph before the tah-dah moment.

Have a wonderful Tuesday, it's spring and that alone is nice, isn't it?

Making the Baby Quilt

TGIF it's Friday!! Hello dear readers,

Since my post yesterday, and the mentioning of the quilt. I thought I'd give you a peek at what I'm doing the colors and how I plan to put it together.

The colors in this photograph aren't really showing them as they are one gets a better view in the top photograph. Here I am working on setting up the squares for a nice quilt pattern.

This quilt is for Emma Ann the new little one in the first photograph in the last post below. I am planning on doing most of it by hand, finishing off the gray squares with some pink detail so far, not sure. I really do love the colors and the fact they will match her nursery perfectly. I will have to photograph her nursery its so beautiful, the gray's, whites, and pinks. I just love it and this will be a good addition.

So there you have it for Friday, have a wonderful weekend. It's a bit cool here kind of dreary, cloudy and rainy. It's been that way for days. Doesn't help the mood, so I'm doing what I can to stay occupied and not let these days get to me. Enjoy where ever you are, thanks again for visiting.