Okay, so Claudia made this awesome quilt and asked me if I could do any kind of Indian Themed quilting. I had this idea pop in my head that said "Indian Rug," and I went for it. I had to research Indian Rugs and the designs on them. Taking several designs based on Navajo Indian Rugs I saw, I came up with a template for the borders. The template is a three part template that I had to draw on before I put the quilt on the frames using a white chalk pencil. That took me a long time.

Just so you know, the borders were completely plain black fabric. All the color you see is thread - and lots of it.

I filled in all the black areas with my swirl, and did a little quilting on the batiks. I had so much quilting in this quilt that I tried to balance it out by not quilting as much in the batiks. I also didn't want to take away from the colors of the batiks and the design they created.

I had a lot of thread changing in this quilt. I tried to do all the quilting with one thread and move on to the next color to save time - I was able to do this because I basted everything down using the black thread first. That way I could move the quilt back and forth.

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Magnificient, and amazing. Customer must be delighted. You're an awesome longarmer.

It is, indeed, awesome.

Truly beautiful. It's an amazing work of art.

Wow! That sure is beatiful!

I am gobsmacked!!!That is truly incredible! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Big fan of your work!!!! So beautiful!!!

This is a work of art! Just beautiful.

Beautiful!! :)

Would have loved to have been there to see your customer's face when you gave her the quilt! It's beautiful.

gorgeous

That is awesome!!!!!

You are extremely talented! That is absolutely beautiful!

Very nice!

Thais is so beautiful, thanks for sharing.

that is amazing.. so beautiful!

You've outdone yourself again...stunning one of a kind quilt :thumbup:

WOW!!!!

Amazing!

Judi, this is a stunning quilt, to say the least! You are a very talented artist/quilter. Love the details.

Fantastic... :thumbup:

Stunning :shock: You really did a wonderful job , a work of art :mrgreen: :thumbup: Thanks for sharing

That is truely outstanding!
beautiful!

WowWeeeeee...Absolutely goregous!

What a gorgeous quilt! It is truly a work of art! You are quite the artist.

That's for sure, awesome job.

That look fantastic!

OMG - can't even imagine all the work that went into making the top and then the quilting - just fabulous!

This is an amazing quilt, piecing and quilting!

Amazing talent!!!

:thumbup: Oh my Gosh!!! This is amazing!

Another work of art. You made a beautiful quilt even prettier!!

absolutely amazing.

Oh what a lucky person to have you do this for her.

This one really takes my breath away. Fantastic!!!!

just wonderful!!!

As always>>>>>>>>>>>>Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Both quilt and the quilting!

Really, really awesome!

OMG that is just STUNNING!! :thumbup: It really adds personality to it. Fabulous quilting!

Wow!!! That is beautiful!