What I’m working on: handquilting Discovery

My husband took a really good photo of me and our little son, while I was trying to do some handquilting on Discovery. My little one just wanted to sit in mommy's lap, and watch Saturday morning cartoons on daddy's phone at the same time.

I think we sat like that for over half an hour.

Until he got bored and went to do something else, and I finally could quilt higher up on the frame than just directly in front of me and perhaps 15 cm from the bottom.

The kantha stitched stars are coming along, slowly. I am debating how sane I thought this idea is, because it will take such an awful lot of time, but it will never the less look great.

My drawn schematic of the star ship Discovery translated quite well into a quilting motif. The scale is just a tiny bit off, because the length of the long engine/warp system "fins" on it's sides. No, I have no idea what to really call them. I'm a biochemist, not a fictional space ship engineer.

When you take into account that I started with no idea on what to quilt on all this blank pink space, I think I don't have to worry about any design choices for a while now.

Because I'm sure I'll be making kantha stars until well after Christmas! :P

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