So while helping my mom clean her room a while ago, we pulled all of the quilts out of the cedar chest, shook them, refolded them, and put them back. While doing this, I saw an unfinished quilt that the materials looked newer than the others (most of the ones in the chest are ones my grandma or great grandma made) and asked her about it. She said it was one she started for her bed, and when she started to quilt it realized her machine wasn't large enough to quilt it and sending it to be quilted was too expensive. Therefore, the quilt has been sitting in her closet for at least 15 years now, unfinished. As she hasn't gotten a new machine, I was curious if I could hand quilt it, but do a different design, she started going through the middle, so it's divided into 4 rectangles. Could I hand quilt the rest? I don't want to take out what she's already done, because the quilt is huge. And as it would be for everyday use, I don't see why I couldn't just keep going. I would love to finish it for her and give it to her for Christmas this year, or next, depending on when I finished.
If I do go ahead and quilt the large rectangles do you have any suggestions for what I could do? I'm relatively new at hand quilting so would like to have something not too hard.
The quilt is 84 x 96 with 18 inches of quilting down the center which leaves me with 39 x 33 inch blocks.
the top of the quilt, can kind of see where she started to quilt it
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the backing that she used
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the quilting, done right through the center
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where it crosses in the middle, but not all of the 'waves' are done, I'd need to do 3 more
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