[QUOTE=quiltingbythesea;5892060]! The quilt and shams were purchased at Sears.
The one first shown was hand stitched, the second had to be machine stitched since it was bought at Sears. ALSO, I am horrified that anyone (and everyone seems to be "anyone") would take out hand stitching and do the "early 21st century thing of doing fancy long-arm quilting instead! You would reduce the value of the quilt, the feel of it, the reminder of what quilts used to be! I don't hand stitch anything (I have arthritis and a whole set of hand tools to help me when making quilts) but you have a quilt that reflects history and you want to modernize it! Hurts my soul. If it needs more, closer, quilting I'd have some one do it by hand, since I can't myself. Do your long arm magic on some other quilt!
Now you have your first horrified protest
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