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Old 11-22-2017, 10:22 PM
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Kwiltr
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I finished a quilt for my sister's family that she had started to quilt on her Sitdown machine for her daughter. She was a new quilter and it was a cheater quilt top. She had gotten all of the ditching done around the blocks...56 of them, it was a queen sized quilt. She had managed to also quilt two of those blocks before she passed away suddenly. She had chosen a pattern of quilting that was all ruler work. I brought it home to quilt on my longarm as I knew it would be easier than trying to do that on a Sitdown machine. My sister had trimmed all the excess backing off even with the sashing, being a new quilter didn't realize she should have left it. Nevertheless, I basted right through the border sashing with scrap fabric,it was just an inch wide and mounted it to my leaders. Down the sides, as I advanced the quilt I pin basted a piece of fabric to each side of the quilt to have something to attach the side clamps to, removing and reattaching as i advanced, so i wouldn't stretch the border fabric out of whack. In spite of all that, it turned out to be a pretty quilt. Was it perfect? No, but the only real hiccups were a few pleats that happened on the backside that I bet no one will ever see and it got the quilt done ready to be gifted to her daughter, the intended recipient this Christmas. I left all of my sisters earlier quilting work intact, so that it still had her Mom's stitches in the quilt for my niece.
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