In the last week or two, I've done lots of utility stitching for my sister's red and white double nine patch quilt, set on point. I had basted the blocks on my old sewing machine, but simply couldn't do the main quilting on it, as it didn't fit into the harp space so I could move it at all.
I unpicked the couple of continuous curve blocks i had already done and redid them on my new machine. I have now basted the large nine patch blocks and some of the small nine patch blocks, as I wanted to see if "every stinking seam" did make a difference. This basting was done with water dissolving thread.
At the end of the day, I don't think my original basting was good enough to warrant basting the small nine patches.
I have now done continuous curves on 37 of the double nine patch blocks. Only five left to do! Then 30 white blocks, 22 half triangles, 4 corner triangles and three borders. There are over 2200 pieces in this quilt, excluding the back.
Here is a picture of the utility quilting (and the continuous curves). I didn't bother trying to get the utility lines too straight. Hopefully they do wash out :)
I still have to decide what to quilt in the white blocks.
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