Hand Quilting Done

Here I am, making the very last stitch of hand-quilting the patchwork on the koi project.

I began hand quilting this on January 9th, and finished on February 21st, so it's taken me six weeks, and (roughly) around 350 hours.

To give you some perspective on the labor, if I'd done this work for minimum wage ($7.25/hour) I'd have to pay myself $2,537.50. As a labor of love, however, it's priceless.

I've picked out the embroidery threads I want to use, so I'll be starting the embroidery phase next.