It's Getting There

Progress, little by little.  I quilt four to five kites an evening.  They're not perfect, but when I step back and look at them, I say: hey, that's not bad!

It's been interesting.  Some thread that I thought would show up, doesn't. (I really thought orange creamsicle on light gold would show more.)  Colors that I thought would be overbearing, aren't (salmon pink on white).  I am so grateful I didn't try to quilting Key West Memories because I have fought with ever single screenprint kite.  They all have skipped stitches and shredded thread.  I had to rip the blue one out twice.  The last time I ran into problems like this, a smaller needle did the trick.  This time, as I quilted the very last Key West print, I discovered a larger needle prevented the skipping.  What a pain!

The back is appealing.  The light-threaded quilting pops on the blue background.  All you see is the kite-shaped quilting without the stained glass look. 

The one thing I'm not sure about is the quilting over the label.  I should have thought of that when I positioned it.  I figure if I find it too hard to read, I can always applique another label on top of it.

I debated about quilting all the black with a dark grey thread, so it would be visible, but opted to stick with black on black.  It's just straight-line quilting with a walking foot - nothing exciting.

Just a little bit of quilting left, then the binding.  Two days left in August.  Think I'll finish it by the end of the month?