year 6

I've been working on this quilt since 2014. 

six years

it's hand pieced nine patches that measure one inch when sewn

the photos in this post were taken over the last week at the family cottage

I spent three nights alone - I loved it.

I've written a tutorial on hand piecing using the nine-patches in this quilt.

That was in 2016.  here

Projects that take a long time seduce me.

It is so comforting to go back to them and not have to think.  Just stitch.

Family visited last weekend - April had the idea to photograph her quilts floating in the water.

Aren't they great?

'But how very much of one piece is everything we encounter, how related one thing is to the next, how it gave birth to itself and grows up and is educated in its own nature, and all we basically have to do is be there, but simply, ardently, the way the earth simply is, consenting to the seasons, light and dark and altogether in space, not asking to rest upon anything other than the net of influences and forces in which the stars feel secure. "  Rainer Maria Rilke