I may get discouraged by how long it takes me to quilt something by hand, but I am always so thankful that I am a handquilter when I travel and have something to work on. On this two week trip (Atlanta to San Jose, Costa Rica to Guayaquil, Ecuador to Quito, Ecuador), I actually brought two quilts to work on: my Orange Creamsicle quilt to quilt in airports and on the plane (since the needles are use are so tiny), and my Scrappy Strings Star quilt to sleep under as I work on it. I am using lots of different colored embroidery floss to quilt it, so I am using embroidery needles, and they, of course, are too big and dangerous to bring on airplanes, so that quilt lives in my checked luggage.
Here's a peek at my hotel room with my quilts out, helping it seem more like home.
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| view one from my balcony |
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| view two from my balcony |
Right now I am in the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica after spending 4 days here visiting high schools and making new friends. It turns out that my sister's sister-in-law used to live here and still has friends here, so she connected me with them. I actually had a slumber party in my hotel room last night with one of them - what fun! We stayed up super late talking, but today is just a travel day for me, so it is OK if I am tired.
And I've got a question for you - on my scrappy string star quilt, I'm not sure what I want to do in my big white squares, continue making concentric squares, or quilt some other type of design in the center of the 4 concentric squares that are already there? You can see what I've got so far. In the triangles, since they are smaller, that will just be 3 concentric triangles in there. Ideas, anyone?
Anyone who leaves an opinion will be entered into a drawing for some goodies from my travels. I can't guarantee that they'll include anything quilting related, but I can guarantee that it will include at least some chocolate covered coffee beans - YUMMY!!!
I'll holler at you again from Ecuador. Sew some for me, y'all!
