Comfort Quilt
 

This will be given to a co-worker who is recovering from donating a kidney to her husband.

I had other coworkers sign fabric and included that in the ribbon around the ballerina.

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This is the first quilt I did using the Pro-stitcher for quilting different sections. After I did that, I went back and FMQ to fill in areas.

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Very nice! I don't really understand about the computer work, but presume you must tell it the dimensions of the area to fill with the selected design?

That ribbon row around it is awesome and the little dips in the next border are amazing. What is the name of the pattern if you don't mind sharing?

I used several different ideas for this quilt. The ballerina is a pattern I bought and downloaded, but the rest I made up as I went. I've seen the ribbon like that used in borders, and figured it would work well with the signature blocks, and the dips are on a picture of a quilt pattern offered by Connecting Threads that I saved from a couple of years ago.

I used quite a bit of freezer paper ( I have a roll of unwaxed stuff for drawing) to get the angles and placing correct. I kept thinking I really need to open up my EQ7 and learn how to use it! Probably would have been easier than doing all the math (but I do like math!)

Thimblebug - The design software to run the LA is pretty neat. One uses the machine to plot out the area, and then you select a design and squish and stretch and rotate (and all sort of fun) until it fits like you want. The inner border took over an hour to set up as I had to combine corners and rows and then crop off parts to get it to fit.

I know I could have FMQ some feathers way quicker than setting up the computer to stitch it, however I am trying to learn how to do the computer part. It also came with Art and Stitch, but that is another one I've not looked at yet.

Beautiful and such a nice gesture!

Great job! Love everything about it.

Cathy, this is beautiful! Have you taken any classes on the Prostitcher? I don't have one but recently an HQ educator came to a LQS to teach and the ladies raved about the Prostitcher classes!

very nice indeed

Beautiful and very thoughtful !

Wonderful quilt..you must be a whizz at math to figure all the components on this one!