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2015 Quilts, quilting · April 27, 2015

Other People’s Quilts

It was a long winter and here it is almost the end of April and I have yet to finish a quilt for myself this year.  For over 25 years I have been quite prolific and finished lots of quilts but not…

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2015 Quilts, borders, finished quilts, quilting · January 22, 2015

A Speed Bump Near the Finish Line

As I was sewing the binding to this quilt I felt this on the back. When I flipped it over to take a look I couldn’t believe it. I’ve quilted probably a couple of hundred quilts on the frame and…

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2015 Quilts, quilting · January 21, 2015

23 Bobbins Later

The quilting is finished.  Yep, I used 23 bobbins on this quilt.  My machine uses the smaller “L” size bobbins, but that is still over a mile of thread just on the back.  No wonder it took so long to quilt it….

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2015 Quilts, piecing · January 17, 2015

French Kiss Top Complete

After finishing all the blocks, the real test came in setting them together.  I just hoped they would be the same size so everything would fit together properly.  This quilt is set on point so I had to draft the…

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