August progress slow stitching

This month I surprised myself. We went on holidays and after reading how many crafters bring a slow stitching project along, I decided do deep-dive and start the Sunrise quilt. The advantage is definitely that such a small project hardly takes up any space in my bag. And I don't have to count stitches or rows. 

As I have no clue how to assemble the blocks, other than start stitching together, I decided to sew the triangles in batches for the first block. 

Thereafter started sewing these batches to the dodecagon - we had to look up how one would call a polygon with 12 sides. Simple: dodeca is twelve in Greek - so dodecagon it is.

The aim is to finish one block per month .... otherwise this quilt will take two years. Most likely this will take me at least two years in any case ... 

Linking up with Patty's OMG for August over at Elm Street quilts.

Slow stitching in August

In October 2019 I was in NY and of course had to go on a hunt for quilt shops. I visited one, held the Tula Pink Sunrise quilt kit in my hands and in the end did not buy it as thought I would never ever have the patience for hand quilting.

 

In April 2020 with the lock down of the pandemic and being at home, I decided to buy the quilt online. The kit took over three months to arrive; first it was in quarantine in the US ... no flights ..... Then finally after many weeks the package left the US ... only to arrive in Japan .... mmm wrong direction .... 

Somewhere in between lock downs the kit arrived and I just did not get around starting. 

In all fairness, I had never did English paper piecing before, that is why initially I did not buy the kit. 

This summer, with the heat wave and inside a lot, I ended up watching many videos on how to do EPP. August is here and I decided to start. I have cut a bunch of triangles and prepared them. I have some nice thread so ready to go.

 

The aim this month is to sew several sets of two triangles, even if only enough for one sun. After all, this is a first.

Linking up with Patty over at Elm Street Quilts for August's OMG.