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    Old 11-12-2012, 04:35 AM
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    very nice. love the design...esp flowers
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    Old 11-12-2012, 05:16 AM
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    Beautiful job. it was worth the effort.
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    Old 11-12-2012, 05:22 AM
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    Wow, that's pretty! I love it with the dark background. Heather is my favorite designer.
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    Old 11-12-2012, 05:29 AM
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    Originally Posted by cjtinkle
    Thanks everyone! Scalping is where you leave the quilt on the longarm, and lift the top and the batting away from the backing fabric to expose the stitches, then run a razor blade (I use my rotary cutter) lightly against the stitches. Unless you're incredible careful, it often destroys the batting and the backing, but the top is safe. It's a last ditch effort... but if you've ever tried to frog out black thread on black fabric...
    that answers one questions (what is scalping?) but now I want to know, What is Frogging?
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    Old 11-12-2012, 05:35 AM
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    Beautiful quilt and quilting - thanks for sharing!
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    Old 11-12-2012, 06:14 AM
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    Oh that is soooo pretty!
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    Old 11-12-2012, 06:16 AM
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    It's a beautiful quilt with gorgeous quilting!
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    Old 11-12-2012, 06:26 AM
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    Just gorgeous!
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    Old 11-12-2012, 06:30 AM
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    Thanks for the scalping explanation. Beautiful quilt.
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    Old 11-12-2012, 07:16 AM
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    Originally Posted by paulswalia
    that answers one questions (what is scalping?) but now I want to know, What is Frogging?

    LOL frogging is a nickname for seam ripping. Rip it, riippp it, rrrrriiiippp it!
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