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Old 06-07-2012, 11:49 AM
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Sadiemae
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Originally Posted by murphzmom View Post
Thinking of making a rag quilt for the first time for my new grand-daughter. I am going to use flannel and warm-n-natural for the batting. I was wondering instead of making the "X" on the squares if I couldn't use my embroidery machine to embroider on the squares instead. Then I was wondering how I would hoop them all or if I should just embroider the top squares first then cut them to size and make the sandwich with the batting and bottom square.

If anyone has done this before I would be interested in any hints or tips that you can give me.

Thanks!!

Mindy-WI
I made one a few years ago and I just used three layers of flannel, no batting. I cut my squares, layered the 3 squares and embroidered them. Then I put them together in the quilt.
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