Project: Carpenter's Wheel Medallion *COMPLETE! See post 71 *

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Thank you! I'm speeding along on the border today. Have the top and half of one long side done, but the day is cool and overcast and I'm fighting a case of the yawns. Hard to stay focused when you keep wanting to curl up with the quilt and go to sleep, LOL.
 
Wow, Cyn....YOU AMAZE ME! It's gorgeous - just gorgeous! She's going to faint when you present it to her!
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Thank you, Wyn! I'm close to being done with the border, if my fingers and back will cooperate. I'm doing it in an oval hoop, sitting in bed. Can't go outside due to rain and tomorrow, snow/rain mix, so will have it most likely finished except for binding.

What I'm hoping is that some other family member doesn't say, "Oh, I want one!".
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Um, no. Money is so stinking tight, I need to quilt something to make some $$$ now. The family just doesn't get it, either the money situation or the labor that goes into making a quilt this size. This was a labor of love for Ranee, two years in the making. One year thinking about it while making other things and one year piecing, then putting it away for months, then bringing it back out to quilt a couple weeks ago.

I really like making smaller projects much better than bed quilts, but everyone wants a bed quilt and it's always a queen size. Can't turn out many of those with hand quilting the entire thing as I do, fighting carpal tunnel, bad eyes, hoping not to bring on a migraine (which, luckily, this hasn't).
 
Border is finished and I'm going back to outline quilt the inside of the primitive hearts-seemed they really should have had that in the first place. Here are some photos to show detail on both back and front of some of the quilting. You may still see some of the chalk marks under the stitching, which will wash/brush off:

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That quilt is gorgeous. Just beautiful.
Your quilting is outstanding.

I have tried to hand quilt a couple of times, but I cannot get the hang of it. I have started to develop carpal tunnel syndrome so I doubt I will ever be a hand quilter. I envy those that do, it is always just so much prettier. But maybe that is just because I know how much work going into hand quilting.

Thank you for sharing!
 
Thank you! I used to do better (once someone accused me of machine quilting a hand quilted baby quilt, but they'd never do that now), but I developed carpal tunnel symptoms a few years ago after my thyroid went wacko. Doc said there is a correlation between the two. I also prefer the look of hand quilting, though it takes much longer to complete.
 
One short and one long side are bound, third side is pinned, but my back has a knot in it that is worse than the thread, so quitting for the night. Here is the way the edges will look. I folded over backing to the front as binding for this one; less work that way, faster to finish than a completely separate binding.

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