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You may be asking, "Why is she showing us this one again?" This is my flaky project of adding another row to a quilt that I thought was completely done back in February. It was a lot of work, but I'm glad I did it. This took me a day and a half in addition to however long I spent making the additional row of blocks and quilting it, which I did some weeks ago. It took me that long to psych myself up to pick out an entire length of stitches between the last row and the brown border and then hold my breath and cut through the batting and backing.

It just didn't seem right to leave it big but not big enough for one of our beds. I feel it is going to be just as strong as it was. I sewed the front seams on the machine, and had those stitches go through the batting. Then I trimmed the batting where the previous batting edges met and tucked under the extra backing that I had left hanging over for that purpose. I attached that by hand, which took somewhere between 2-3 hours. Then there was some additional quilting to do along the borders, and finally adding the binding on the new area, which turned out to be pretty tricky. I made a tiny boo-boo when I was trimming the batting and cut a teeny hole in the backing. So when everything else was done I appliqued a little patch of the backing over the hole. It's a busy print, so probably nobody will notice. I'm not inviting any quilt police over any time soon. This is for a guest room where our young grandsons sleep when they visit. I hope they will enjoy looking at the assortment of fabrics as much as I enjoyed looking at scrappy quilts my grandmother made when I was a child.