Basting and quilting............

I finished basting the quilt I showed yesterday and then went back to machine quilting on my straight stitch machine.  I am turning a corner every 1.5" for the ditch quilting on this quilt.  Each row top to bottom takes almost 20 minutes and I did 6 of them yesterday.  I now have 11 of the 20 rows quilted.

If you click and enlarge this photo you can see the pattern it makes on the back of the quilt.  Ditch quilting between blocks was done before I started these long rows.

This quilting makes the plain color squares pop forward so the zipper effect should be more prominent.  

The art quilters are coming Monday so I have to spend at least 5 hours cleaning off tables, delinting design walls and vacuuming today.  Baking will happen tomorrow.