Another Step

Today I completed the next round of quilting, the squaring of the circle part. Partly because of the mechanics of  handquilting, and partly because our weather and climate here are dry, my fingertips, index and thumb, are getting beat up. I do not like the looks of machine quilting, especially the more dense modern version that has motifs everywhere making the quilt look as if it has acquired a communicable disease. But right now, today, it feels as if I need thimbles on three digits not just one.