Quiltingboard Forums - The Kokopelli & cactus quilt

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Originally Posted by feline fanatic

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Originally Posted by amandasgramma

Okay - I want a standing ovation from you all!!!! This quilt was made by my friends, Pat & Bonnie. She did the appliqueing and decorative stitching. Pat did the piecing. I did the quilting. By far this is the hardest quilt I've ever done.........very satisfying but very tiring!!!

This is beautiful. Details please on the quilting.... Why was this the hardest? Looks like a lot of ruler work so I could understand that part being draining. How about the cacti and kokopelli quilting? Is this panto, free hand or computer generated? I love the details!!

Thank you EVERYONE!!! wow!

The hardest part --- well, I designed the Kokopelli and cactus....creating it on the computer so the rows "nested" wasn't all that hard -- a good learning experience. Creating rows that nested AND stopped before they went over into the center panel was interesting. I found a Kokopelli and cactus pictures on the internet, copied, scanned, dumped into CorelDraw, then fixed and dropped into the computer program for the quilter. The computer program has 20 little marks between the inches instead of doing it by eighths!!! How stupid! I have to look to see if there's a setting that I can change or not. It took until the LAST row of the diamonds, that I discovered something. The computer portion is OFF by 1/4"!!!!! CRAZY! No wonder I couldn't measure right !!!! It wasn't me after all!!!! Also, my machine is in the shop -- outside...believe me, I ran up and down stairs, back and forth so many times my legs now have muscles!!! I KNOW the next one I do like that -or similar will be easier. heh heh heh -- in fact, the next quilt, the owner has requested I do ALL of it free-hand - no computer. whew, now we'll see what I can REALLY do!