Hand sewing is time consuming and tedious - that much is obvious. But when it comes to completing a quilt and finishing your binding I am certain that there is no other way to produce as fine a result. After all the speedy stitching on the machine and super fast cutting the rotary blade you don't really get a sense of what kind of effort it would take without those things. Taking a few hours to hand stitch the final stage in a project makes you reflect on the vast need of time and energy if this processes had to be done entirely by hand. Someday I would like to do an entire quilt by hand. I'm sure I would quit less than half way though once I realized the grandness of the undertaking.
I'm only about a third of the way done with the final stitching of the binding and there it will stay for the remainder of the weekend. After a solid two weeks of working and sewing on six hour sleep I have decided to give myself the weekend off to not even think about fabric, pins and if my scissors are getting dull.
I'm off to New Jersey! <3
No comments:
Post a Comment