Originally Posted by
Bugaroo
WMUteach I have several of my grandmothers quilts that were all hand sewed from flour sacks. Love them too much to use them. Also there is an elderly lady up here, North Ga mountains, that had sews all her quilts and sells them at a local store. They are beautifully detailed and take her a year to make one!!
I understand how it could take a year.I hope she gets a good price for them. It took me just over 6 months and I only had to make 1/3 of the blocks. I don't think I will take on another large quilt like this again, but I do plan on some other smaller hand quilting projects. I learned to use a needle as a 5-year-old by making my new baby brother bibs with embroidered animals on them. So, in some sense hand work comes naturally to me because that is what I learned first, but the hand quilting techniques were new and different from embroidery.