Oh dear, Kris I hope the pins have rusted after so long...ask me how I know!
Just a lovely quilt, too. It is not easy wrestling that big of a quilt on a DSM...ask me how I know!
Back in the day, I too did some FM embroidery on my Viking. I made the kids' jeans...put orange tractors, Smurfs, etc on the back pockets for the boys...hearts for DD. And I used regular sewing machine thread...there weren't many specialty threads at the time. I remember thinking...boy does this take a lot of thread! My kids are in their mid 30's and 40's so it was a while ago! Oh I guess now it's called thread painting.