Panchita - there's no real timeframe on the quilt, other than the one I placed on myself. My sister works in the medical field at a post acute care center and she has just been getting beaten up and thrown around by Covid so much this year that I felt it was time for her to have something to really look forward to. She's been wanting a DWR since she was eight, when she saw our grandmother's quilt and now that I've had a few quilts under my belt, I felt it was a good time to finally tackle my fear of curves and give her something beautiful. I was hoping to have it done by next September for our fall festival we have every year (except this year, they canceled it, thank god) and put it in the quilt show, then hand it off to her. I even put the caveat that she doesn't get it unless she comes to the festival, which she enthusiastically said yes.
I did get some good rest finally, my fiance and I are working at night because we know the spiders are most active then and we have a better chance at spotting and killing them, and was able to get almost 700 pieces cut before going to bed yesterday morning. Then I slept most of the day away and now I'm working on cleaning up the dining room table so I can pull out my 24 x 36 cutting mat to finish cutting out the pieces. That and the fact that it's been standing on edge since I got it, I know it needs to get flat for a while or I'm going to risk warping it permanently.
I'm not afraid of the pattern, I practiced enough on scraps that I'm confident I can do the quilt with minimal fuss. The colors we chose are just so flipping gorgeous because they're hand-dyed that I joked with her and the woman that dyed the fabric for me that I felt guilty for cutting into the fabric, they're literal works of art on their own, my sister's quilt is going to be spectacular. So, I am very excited to get it going, it was just those little eight-legged demons that had to throw a wrench into it.
craftiladi - I'll do anything to protect my fur babies, especially from brown recluse. Depending on how many times a dog has been bit and how big the dog is, recluse has been known to kill dogs and I've seen what one bite will do to a dog, it's not fun in the least. My two are 60 and 70 pounds, a single bite would make them incredibly sick and the thought they would have to suffer just makes my heart ache and my stomach turn.