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Old 03-06-2010, 12:20 PM
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Henriellen Kibler
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HI, I like the first two the best. But You have unfinshed tops. Are you going to hand quilt them or machine quilt them?? I am an old woman and I like TV. So I put my quilt in my lap and I hand quilt while I watch TV. The first two quilts you list are easy to hand quilt. It takes a while but not nearly as long as those last one that you have on there even though they are not full size quilt. Now IMHO Wickedly Easy and Wicked Easy are to hard to hand quilt. Too many little pieces to hand quilt around. Machine quilting is beautiful but again IMHO it makes my quilt too stiff. I like the softer feel of hand quilting. Now if I have big squares or triangles I will find a stencil and sew something in there to make sure the batting doesn't shift. Of course the batting these days doesn't shift like my Aunts batting could. I still have not found out if she used paper patterns in side her grandmother flower garden quilt. I use it a lot and I put it in the washing machine and so far the quilt and batting are holding up. She made this quilt in 1938-39.
She rheumatoid arthritis and she hand quilted every quilt she made which was 5 or 6 I believe. I only have two of them. The other is a Double Wedding Ring.
I made my first dress when I was 17. Got married when I was 21 and had 4 boys. Didn't sew much for them but when I started having granddaughters decided I make a quilt for each grandchild. Sons all said they had to have one, then daughters-in-law had to have one. Then husband had to have one and now great grandchildren have to have one. I can't die until I get all these quilts finished. I'm not like the Amish. I don't have to deliberately make a mistake. That happens anyway. So happy quilting.
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