Old 07-13-2011, 12:06 PM
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Kallen
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I wouldn't change a thing except to use the advice of others about putting on a border and squaring it up. I helped a group of ladies learn to quilt a few years back. When it came to the quilting (by hand) one of the elderly ladies who had been a wonderful quilter in her younger days, was embarassed because her quilting was uneven, wobbly and the stitches were long. She called them "toe-hook" stitches. She said that I would probably want to remove her stitches later before giving it to the wounded Marine it was made for. I could never have removed her stitches; they made the quilt all the more meaningful and I let that Marine know how special it was.
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