Hiawatha Quilt Finished!

As I promised (but very late!) I took my quilt outside in the sunshine and took some great photos of it.

It is my quilt of firsts, and you can read the story about how it progressed in an earlier blog post!

I've lost a La Passacaglia pentagon :(

So there I was, holidaying and quilting in the van, then a week in Saltburn and I get my first rosette almost complete.

On my last day I decided to cut all 30 pentagons out and wrap the papers so I had something to do on the 5 1/2 hr journey home.

I have to say quilting in the car is difficult. I like to make small stitches, just catching the fabric and with the car movement I find that difficult, but not impossible.It was much slower but I did do all 30.

So, the next step with the rosette is a row of stars, but it appears not to go the whole way around in the matching colour. But I digress  - I haven't got out of the car yet. It was late and dark as we pulled up to the house and I was gathering my quilt stuff together to bring inside. Disaster! the templates - which had been happy in their original packing with the top resealed, decided that this was the time to escape and drop all over the car floor. Even worse the packaging blew under the car!

I counted all the pieces and I was one missing - I guessed it was in the packet that was adrift in the wind! Oh no!!!. I enlisted my husband's help and there it was, stuck on the wheel, and the piece was inside! Yippee!!!

I stuff it in my pocket and the rest into a plastic bag with the wet towel inside, counting them very carefully.

In the morning I unpack and don't think much about them. I'd counted them - they were all there. However the box had been moved around a few times and when I come to start the stars... one of them is missing!

I've looked in the car, under the car, in my coat pocket, in the towel, in the bag, under the sofas and everywhere I can think of. Nowhere to be found.

😭

So I decided to start the next rosette while hunting.

Fingers crossed I find it - I need it soon!!!