The Hungry Caterpillar quilting update

I'm quite excited this evening, as yesterday and today I have managed to finish off the hand stitched quilting on the 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' panel I referred to in a previous post as panel 1. The long panel with the caterpillar and the sun. Started hand stitching this back on the last bank holiday weekend in August, but work and other non sewing projects (including my gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition) took up most of my time and so could only do bits here and there. I've been doing more and more sewing on this over recent weeks and this week in particular I feel I've stepped my sewing projects on the whole. Here is some evidence of my work: 

Panel 1 - The Sun, hand stitched

'Panel 1' - The caterpillar - hand stitched

'Panel 1' A close up of the caterpillar - hand stitched

(Sorry the pictures aren't bigger, when put up to the next size they don't sit right on the blog and spill out onto the right hand side section. However I have found today that if you click on one of the pictures you can see them much bigger without losing your page.)

I have to confess that the blog has been helping keep up the project excitement - just hope I can keep it all going - brimming with enthusiasm at the mo.