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sewplease 01-13-2013 09:36 PM

Cindy, your border fabric is PERFECT! Beautiful quilt! I used a dark brown sashing and think after seeing your quilt will add it as a border. I like the way it frames the design.

Saphire Rae, I love the pink stars with your brights! Many of the fabrics in my pieced border were not in the 9 patches but they all seemed to mix in. The next one I'm going to do will be light sashing with pink stars. :-)

Quiltaddiction 01-13-2013 10:23 PM

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Finished clue 3 and have added the sides. I really like it but am now undecided on wether to add borders or not to frame the quilt and what colour? I was thinking maybe the blue like the stars. What do you all think?

Elisabrat 01-13-2013 11:57 PM

Blue border would be great! what lovely quilts they turned out. still thinking mine is not so great. will toss on the last row and then we can vote. HONEST votes. like hey brat! that is boondog ugly. or its tolerable .. or I am crazy but I like it. simple really :)

moonrise 01-14-2013 01:39 AM

I unexpectedly ended up making a third quilt. :D We rearranged the furniture and moved our bed to another room. Since we sleep days, we use heavy curtains to block out the daylight, and the previous curtains didn't match the new room at all. DH suggested I make a small quilt and hang over the window. I had some blue blocks already made for a charity quilt, so I grabbed some of them and quickly threw one together using the mystery quilt pattern.

My quilting machine had been stored away in another part of the house, and I haven't been able to use it in ages. We moved it to our "old" bedroom, and I'm (hopefully) going to attempt to quilt the mystery quilt in just a bit. If all goes well, and if I don't fall over from exhaustion, I'm hoping to hang the new "curtain" before we go to bed this morning. :) (I also made a bunch of make-ahead freezer dinners this morning, and am still recovering from the flu, so I'm flat wore out! LOL!)

I'll finish up the other two mystery quilt tops this week. :) I'm loving how everyone's turned out! :D This is a very handy pattern. I may try to use it for some of my Boomerang blocks. :)

moonrise 01-14-2013 02:11 AM

Well, I may not be able to quilt it this morning after all. I can't find the bag of accessories and tools and bobbins and needles that came with the machine. :(

moonrise 01-14-2013 04:06 AM

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Not a very good picture (bad lighting), but here it is. The yellow is a nice sunny yellow color, and the green is "richer" than it looks. :) The camera flash washed the colors out, I guess. Still no luck on finding the accessories to my quilting machine. :(

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Belfrybat 01-14-2013 06:44 AM


Originally Posted by Junie (Post 5784664)
I like the serpentine stitch for quilting also very much, I have a Janome 6600 and can not figure out how to get it on my machine, I have tried the Janome web cite with no help there. please help me if you have a clue on how to get this stitch on my machine, I can't afford to buy a Bernina.

Junie


Originally Posted by Junie (Post 5784704)
I have tried several of the stitches on my machine and they are pretty but they don't stretch out like I think they should. They would be nice on miniature quilts. I will keep on trying. thank you for your reply

Junie

I don't have a programmable Janome, but this tutorial might help those who do program in a serpentine stitch:
http://onlinesewing.squarespace.com/...ages/poth2.pdf

Belfrybat 01-14-2013 06:47 AM

Seeing all those lovely quilts has spurred me on to finish this mystery. I keep putting it off as I'm making another couple of quilts, but these are so lovely. I've decided to add another row of blocks to make a nine block quilt instead of 6. Hope I can work out the patched border/ stars around it.

irishrose 01-14-2013 07:54 AM

I was dong a nine blocks for a 56" square, but decided to go with twelve, so I have been cutting squares this morning. Now I will cut my As and use the squares as leaders. I AM getting done. although slowly. Bs are cut.

paintmejudy 01-14-2013 08:11 AM

jaba, just posted my batik table runner in the new picture thread. Made it with 3-1/2" blocks, but is a bit skimpy. Didn't measure, just measured that the 4-1/2" would be too big. Could have used another 9-patch. Once again the old "measure twice cut once" comes into play! Oh well.

Hmmmm sunlite, what kind of fabrics?


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