hand quilting.
 

seriously. i have been doing this for years. when will i get faster?

it is truly the slowest thing ev-AR.

aileen

It's not about speed - think of it as a chance to meditate and re-charge those batteries:). Hand quilting is the best indoor relaxation activity - and you have something beautiful to show for it.

my gran is 89. i know...but it had to be by hand. but....

just frustrated after having put it down over the summer i guess.

just seems kind of endless...

(this is a late night whine brought to you by relentless self-recrimination.)

aileen

As a person who is also a relentless self-recriminator I understand completely. When will we learn to ease up on ourselves!:) :)

You will get there, just keep chugging on. In the end you will be rewarded with a beautiful hand quilted quilt!

just enjoy the process, it is not meant to be fast. If you were doing embroidery or needlepoint you would not expect to be zipping along.

When I was hand quilting for others, more or less full time (6-8 hours a day) I can tell you, you are prone to repetitive motion injuries if you try to overdo it.

I love to hand quilt and sew in the evenings.i feel that with the sewing machine in the day I am rushing to finish, can I get off the rat race. In the evening not being lazy just slowly meditating and hand sewing. I know when to stop I can't thread the needle.
Keep hand sewing it will rewRd you in the end and you will be charged for a new day.

I once had a twin quilt up on a floor frame so long I forgot what I had quilted on the bottom border. :D I stick to smaller hand quilting projects now because I am so slow.

I'm slow as well. It takes me 3-4 months to do a quilt on my quilting frame.... and that's stitching on it a little every day. But I love to see the completed project.... really love the look of hand quilting. So, I don't hand quilt everything.... it takes too long. I do FMQ as well for the ones that aren't as 'special' to me. Right now I have a quilt on the frame that's been there over a year..... I'm gone every summer to our cabin and can't hand quilt and last winter I broke my arm. So, we just got back to our winter place and I uncovered the quilt to work on it. I've been here since Saturday night and haven't had a chance to stitch.... my 93 year old mom was in the hospital and I had to be by her side for 2 days. This quilt is taking a long time to finish.

Took me a year to quilt a double -- shadow quilted around all the needleturn applique first and then the background - did get a bit tiresome sometimes so then I would do something small, but such pleasure when I put in that last stitch - I hand quilt everything stops me falling asleep on the couch in the evenings ha ha