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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Quilting Done on Mosaic Lighthouse Quilt

Tonight I finished quilting the Mosaic Lighthouse quilt.  Now for the binding -- to which I plan to add looped cording -- and then I will do some embroidery to better define the lighthouse and the keeper's house.

I spent 48.5 hours quilting it, bringing the number of hours in this quilt so far up to 472.







Since the quilting is hard to see on the front, I took some pictures of the back:










Somebody asked how I keep track of the hours I spend on the quilt.  I use the Excel program, and have the 'Hours' row divided so each activity is tallied separately.  When I add the number of hours I've quilted that day, for example, the Quilting total at the bottom changes, as does the GRAND TOTAL below that.

When I first started keeping track of hours spent on a quilt, the hardest part of the entire procedure was remembering to look at the clock when I started, look at it again when I stopped, and then actually type the number of hours into the document.  I totally forgot to take note of the hours I worked on the Cross-Stitched Block Quilt; it'll be a barely-educated guess, if I try to figure it out now.

Here is what my Excel spreadsheet looks like, minus the functions and formulas and gridlines:


Mosaic Lighthouse Quilt
Date Hours Activity
12/21/2013 8 cutting
12/27/2013 8 cutting
12/31/2013 5 placing squares
1/1/2014 5 placing squares
1/1/2014 1 cutting
1/2/2014 9 placing squares
1/3/2014 7 placing squares
1/4/2014 1.5 placing squares
1/8/2014 7.5 placing squares
1/9/2014 8 placing squares
1/10/2014 9 placing squares
1/11/2014 5 placing squares
1/14/2014 8 placing squares
1/15/2014 6 placing squares
1/16/2014 8 placing squares
1/17/2014 8 placing squares
1/18/2014 5.5 placing squares
1/18/2014 4 sewing seams
1/31/2014 5 sewing seams
2/1/2014 11 sewing seams
10/1/2014 4 sewing seams
10/2/2014 11 sewing seams
10/4/2014 2 sewing seams
10/4/2014 5 placing squares
10/11/2014 5.5 placing squares
10/11/2014 1 cutting
10/17/2014 1.5 placing squares
10/18/2014 4 placing squares
10/22/2014 3 placing squares
10/22/2014 0.5 cutting
10/23/2014 2.5 placing squares
10/24/2014 2 placing squares
10/25/2014 3 placing squares
10/28/2014 5 placing squares
10/29/2014 2 placing squares
10/29/2014 0.5 cutting
10/30/2014 8 placing squares
10/31/2014 7 placing squares
11/1/2014 8 sewing seams
11/5/2014 3 sewing seams
11/6/2014 7 sewing seams
11/7/2014 7 sewing seams
11/8/2014 8 sewing seams
11/12/2014 2 sewing seams
11/13/2014 5 placing squares
11/13/2014 0.5 cutting
11/14/2014 1 cutting
11/14/2014 4 placing squares
11/15/2014 5 placing squares
11/18/2014 6 placing squares
11/18/2014 0.5 cutting
11/19/2014 0.5 cutting
11/19/2014 5.5 placing squares
1/7/2015 3 placing squares
1/8/2015 10 sewing seams
1/9/2015 5 sewing seams
1/10/2015 8 sewing seams
1/14/2015 5 sewing seams
1/15/2015 5 sewing seams
1/16/2015 2 sewing seams
1/17/2015 10 sewing seams
1/20/2015 11 sewing seams
1/21/2015 6 sewing seams
1/22/2015 8 sewing seams
1/23/2015 8 sewing seams
1/24/2015 10 sewing seams
1/28/2015 5 sewing seams
1/29/2015 6 sewing seams
1/30/2015 11 sewing seams
1/31/2015 10 sewing seams
2/4/2015 7 sewing seams
2/5/2015 9.5 sewing seams
2/6/2015 11 sewing seams
2/7/2015 2 sewing seams
5/8/2015 1 ironing, measuring sides
5/9/2015 7 borders
5/12/2015 3 borders, ironing back
5/12/2015 3 loading quilt
5/13/2015 4.5 quilting
5/14/2015 8 quilting
5/15/2015 6 quilting
5/16/2015 4 quilting
5/19/2015 6.5 quilting
5/21/2015 2 quilting
5/22/2015 5.5 quilting
5/23/2015 9 quilting
Cutting 21.5
Placing Squares 169.5
Sewing Seams 221.5
Ironing 1
Borders 10
Quilting 48.5
Binding
Embroidery
Hotfix Crystals
GRAND TOTAL 472

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