Hand quilting...Need some encouragement
In the mid to late 70's my mom started embroidering a full size quilt top. She would work on it off and on. She then developed cateracts and couldn't work on it by the time she had that taken care of she developed arthritis in he hands. In the late 90's she gave all of her embroidery to me. In 2002 I started completing the embroidery. It was preprinted cross stitch in shades of pink. (Neither of which is my favorite.) It was a project I took on trips to work on while hubby drove and something I could do and still visit with others. I completed the embroidery and got a pic with mom. I have been lap quilting the top and still do most of it while traveling. I will call it the 35+ years, 35,000+ miles quilt. It has been from Washington state to Arkansas, New Mexico to Montana. This is my first hand quilting project.
Mom pased away this January and her 88th birthday would be this coming April 30th. I would like to complete it by then. I have only 2 more of the drops of the quilt to finish the quilting, they are 16" deep. A part of me soooo wants to put it away for a while and another part of me wants to finish it.