Live A Thankful Life: The Lockdown Quilt.

Here’s a snippet of the customer quilt that started my Primitive Gatherings BOM journey! She brought this Farmhouse Threads and Friends “Crazy Seasons” quilt top in to have it custom quilted and I knew immediately I had to grab my own wool project! I fell in love with the Primitive Gatherings “Live A Thankful Life” BOM and stitched away!

What did you do during lockdown? This was my big project for the year. Maybe I had hoped it would help me be thankful for being healthy and prosperous during Covid lockdown… but really it made me thankful for thimbles and never doing nearly 500 wool pennies EVER AGAIN.. okay okay I was also thankful for the other things too.

…Seriously… close to 500 pennies hand cut and hand stitched!

I bought the BOM kit and got started on it at the height of Covid lockdown. I mean it’s not like we were doing much anyways. There were many long nights in front of the TV cutting out wool piece after wool piece. Right about this time I was wondering how much a wool dye cutter would cost… too much. So hand cutting would have to do, followed by hand stitching all of those same pieces.

It’s hard to be too irritated when you’ve got cute little guys like this squirrel staring back at you while you work though. Excuse me while I wait for my fingerprints to come back.

Once all the hand stitching was done and hands were healed (WHOO!), it was time to move on to the quilting. I took a lot of inspiration from Linda Hrcka when I quilted the customers wool project. I brought much of what I learned from that experience and more with me when I quilted my Live A Thankful Life. My goal was to really highlight the character of each block. I think it was a success.

Seeing the finished quilt made the whole process totally worth it. The quilt has gone on to receive multiple awards, and is now proudly hanging in our store. I hope my journey inspires you to take on that daunting project of your own. Please stop by Double E Quilting and check out the quilt in person, you won’t regret it. I Promise you’ll be way more excited than Louise looks!