At last 300+ little leather circles have been appliqued in place using the wonderful neon threads I have such a stock of. Pictured are parts of the back and the front, showing the mostly red but a few scattered magenta and orange leather. The thread is mostly green but I also used small scattered amounts of red, orange and pink and yellow. The reverse side shows that for all the thread showing on the front, there’s much more behind the scenes.
I’m now hand quilting, and as it’s a while since I did any quilting by hand, it took me a while yesterday to get my hand in again, so to speak, but by by dinner time yesterday I’d done about 10%.
Out on the shaded patio, the light’s inadequate for the black on black hand quilting I’m doing, so I’ve retreated up to my sewing room again with the table reading lamp focused on where I’m working. I’m listening to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and then Persuasion to go now in my rather lengthy but wonderful recorded book, so will soon need to order another …