Frolic

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My sewing table is covered with bits and pieces of multiple projects at the moment. In a perfect world, I would finish one project completely and clean up the detritus before moving on to the next project. But the world isn’t perfect and I don’t work like that. This morning, though, I have had the satisfaction of actually hitting milestones in a couple of ongoing projects. The biggest milestone, so far this year, is the completion of my first completed pieced flimsy (quilt top). Last November I embarked on a mystery quilt project with Bonnie Hunter entitled Frolic. Each week a new step was assigned and I managed to stay on top of each step until the final reveal in January. The final instructions were released online the same week that I started a new job and dove headfirst into costuming a theatre production. Assembling the quilt was not a top priority but I have continued to plug away a little bit at a time until this morning I was able to finish the final border. Now, the flimsy will languish in a bag until my date with a long arm quilting machine in July. I could hand quilt it, but I’d have to invest in a new quilt frame first since this monster is much too unwieldy to quilt in a lap hoop.