At last, 300+ little leather circles have been hand stitched into place using the wonderful neon threads I have such a stock of. The leather’s mostly red but there are scattered small amounts of magenta and orange. The stitching is mostly neon green but in places I’ve brought in a little red, orange, yellow and pink. In this pic you can see that for all the thread showing on the front, there’s a lot more on the back:

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 …