Finished!
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| "Picket Fence" or "Home Awaits" pattern. 70"x90" |
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I pulled the fabrics for this a year ago May (2024). This was the computerized plan:
Here's what most of them look like up close and personal:
This ended up being quite heavily quilted, compared to some of my latest ones. I used seven threads in all, six on top and the King Tut "Flower Pot" in the bobbin.
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| Bobbin Green frames 5-patch strips & corners |
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| White strips/corners brown squares red centers yellow frames |
The quilting itself was nothing spectacular, but it got the job done. I traced the wave borders onto Glad Press'n Seal for the yellow and green frames, and stippled around each character's face. In the character-less red squares I did a general meander/stipple.
The binding was made back in December from a yard I couldn't resist. This is the second quilt I've used it on, and there's a big stretch of it remaining.
These birds couldn't fly away quietly--that's not in their nature. While binding this, I discovered an 8" pleat in the back.
It's not as bad as the two I managed to create 15 months ago, but bad enough to require some last-minute hand stitching before I could find a quite corner for this quilt to stay until I donate it to Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
Oh, how maddening to find out there's a pleat after all the work you put into the quilting. The stitch-down idea is a good solution and I hope I will remember it if something like that inevitably happens to me. ("Inevitably" -- are things ever just "evitable"?)
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