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lue 10-08-2012 06:07 AM

WOW! Are you hand-quilting it? It's lovely.

charhend 10-08-2012 06:26 AM

The quilt is beautiful and the hand quilting is stunning!

Mariposa 10-08-2012 06:34 AM

Very pretty scrappy! Great pattern, and the piano key border is a nice addition! :)

labug 10-08-2012 06:56 AM

Beautiful quilt!

Grace MooreLinker 10-08-2012 07:36 AM

Such a beauty, love all the colors,what a great job. thank you for sharing,

WisWis 10-08-2012 08:04 AM

Great quilt, love your quilting.

sharin'Sharon 10-08-2012 08:11 AM

Your hand quilting will be worth the wait. I've always liked the Jewel Box pattern. Thanks for sharing.

Sierra 10-08-2012 08:18 AM

Absolutely beautiful! I have a new DIL and she knows she will be getting a quilt. Her color favorites are Jewel tones, and autumn colors. You have mixed these two so beautifully!!! Great piecing, and the stitch you are using is very special.

jennygrit 10-08-2012 09:18 AM

Beautiful quilt. Love the colors. And your quilting is great!

carolynjo 10-08-2012 10:24 AM

You are doing a wonderful job! Like the variety of colors.

MimiBug123 10-08-2012 11:14 AM

This is beautiful and I love the fact that you are piecing a vintage pattern. It will be absolutely gorgeous when you finish--well, it is already, but even more so when complete!

GreatStarter 10-08-2012 11:21 AM

It is beautiful! You are doing a wonderful job. Please don't put yourself down just because it is taking you longer than it took your neice. As far as I know, you two weren't having a competition...So just smile and keep working on your beautiful quilt. Pretty soon it will be completed!

Kat

KathyPhillips 10-08-2012 01:10 PM

This is beautiful!! I have one started.

sniktasemaj 10-08-2012 01:38 PM

You are doing a great job!

MonaMcC 10-08-2012 01:40 PM

Just saw another post on this quilt pattern. I think I may have finally found what I want to make for my bed. I've never done one this big from start to finish. I have a question. Is there a difference to the warmth of the quilt when you machine quilt as opposed to hand quilting? I hand quilted a top my grandmother pieced and it just has a warm feel to it. When I've seen the machine quilted quilts on here, they look so beautiful and more decorative than I could do by hand but it just seems like all the stitching is so close together that it would lose some of it's ability to keep you warm. What do you think?

katesnanna 10-08-2012 02:34 PM

It may take you a while but it will be worth it by what we've seen. Beautiful quilting.

michelled 10-08-2012 04:55 PM


Originally Posted by MonaMcC (Post 5571355)
Just saw another post on this quilt pattern. I think I may have finally found what I want to make for my bed. I've never done one this big from start to finish. I have a question. Is there a difference to the warmth of the quilt when you machine quilt as opposed to hand quilting? I hand quilted a top my grandmother pieced and it just has a warm feel to it. When I've seen the machine quilted quilts on here, they look so beautiful and more decorative than I could do by hand but it just seems like all the stitching is so close together that it would lose some of it's ability to keep you warm. What do you think?

Because I'm handling the material so much as I move the hoop and do the quilting, the quilt has become quite soft. The machine quilted ones I've seen seem to be a bit less flexible maybe because the fabric hasn't been scrunched and manipulated as it is put down, taken out of the hoop, repositioned and picked up and plopped down on my lap. Like you, the machine quilting I've seen is more heavily quilted than what I've done. I like them for their artistic beauty and I do have a whole cloth heavily quilted (store bought, cheap, lol) coverlet on the bed while this is in the works but the Jewel Box one just feels so cosy. I suspect, as you said, that it just might be warmer because the filler hasn't been so compressed by very dense quilting.

My time 10-08-2012 06:03 PM

Love it! Great way to use up a few scraps as well.

JBeamer 10-08-2012 08:31 PM

Both are great!

Pilgrim 10-08-2012 09:15 PM

Absolutely beautiful quilt and job well done.

katigirl 10-08-2012 10:59 PM

Very pretty. So many pretty fabric.s:thumbup:

stchenfool 10-09-2012 05:00 AM

Wow! Great work.

sunrise450 10-09-2012 09:21 AM

Your quilt is beautiful. I am working off and on one now that I made up as a kit. Mine is made entirely of scraps. I am so glad you showed yours with the borders. You hand quilting is wonderful.

gramquilter2 10-09-2012 09:40 AM

Beautiful quilt and your quilting is really great.

justflyingin 10-09-2012 09:46 AM

It's beautiful! Great job and the quilting is really, really nice!

Taughtby Grandma 10-09-2012 04:13 PM


Originally Posted by Jackie Spencer (Post 5566574)
Beautiful quilt, and your quilting is lovely!!

I think so too, really pretty


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