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I finished quilting my mother's quilt,

I quilted a large feather in the 11" border (the first time I have quilted such large design), it was lots of fun to quilt. I used a Hera Marker to mark the center vein and then free handed the lobes. I stitched the vein first and then added one side and then the other of the feather.

I also finally got started on my Granny's Hankie May BOM. Hopefully I will start stitching it tomorrow.

I am thrilled to say that this book came in the mail today! I won it from Needled Mom. It is a book that people read and then pass on (in a draw). The amazing thing is that every one has signed their names inside - the book has been to quite a few places. I am looking forward to starting it.

I have been spending less time on the computer and it is amazing what gets done!
I have finished the apple core quilt and I will post a tutorial on it soon.

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Quilting

I am still quilting my mother's quilt,


just had to stop because I ran out of thread, hopefully I will get some more tomorrow as I just have a small bit of the outer border to do.

I like how the quilting has turned out. The red diamonds seem to pop out of the quilt because they are not quilted.

The thread that I am using is Presencia (50wt). It is the first time I have used it and it sews beautifully - I have had no problems with breakage.

My only complaint is that the end of the thread is held down with a dot of tape (as seen in the picture), so instead of the thread coming off the spool when it was finished, it pulled and broke the needle, scratched the throat plate on my machine, pulled the threads in the fabric (luckily no hole)! My thread is covered on my machine when I sew, but for the next 3 spools that I finished (they are only 100meter spools) I made sure to pay close attention when I came near the end of the spool.

Around here

we have had more rain and

my oldest built a computer (it has always been his dream).

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Mom's Quilt

I started quilting my mother's quilt.

I knew I wanted to quilt a swirl design in the "stars" and the talented Desley (of Addicted to Quilts) suggested I quilt a flower in the center of the star. I had originally thought that the area was too small, but when I looked at it again there was lots of room for a flower. Thanks so much Desley!! I love how the quilting is turning out. I am planning on doing a swirl in the small border and a feather design in the outer border. If you know my mom please don't tell her - I want it to be a surprise!

I find than it is even easier to quilt a large quilt than a small one because all the fabric tends to hold the quilt on the table. The apple core quilt I just finished kept falling off the table as I was quilting. I like to bunch the quilt around the sewing machine and kind of tuck it under, so that it holds itself up, but leaves the area that I am working on with room to move.

I didn't want to quilt too heavily on this quilt because it is going to be a bed quilt. I am using wool batting and I don't want to flatten it too much. Sleeping under a wool quilt is the best thing - it keeps you at just the right temperature without being heavy like cotton. I hear that silk batting is even better and I will try that on my next quilt. It is even supposed to be easier to machine quilt than wool - can't imagine.

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What to Quilt?

I have finished quilting the apple core quilt, now I have to decide what design to quilt on this quilt! I layered and pinned it today.

the picture doesn't do it justice

Another king size quilt - it is about 105" square (fills my dining room!). I think I will do a feather design in the outer border, but I haven't decided what design to quilt in the center.

It is a quilt top that my mother made. The pattern was inspired by "Facets" from an old issue of Quiltmaker magazine (Jan/Feb '03). I modified it with EQ7. She made it from Robert Kaufman fabric I bought while on holiday in Oregon a few years ago.

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