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    Old 05-13-2020, 03:27 AM
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    Every quilt has a story and I enjoyed reading about yours. It was worth the wait for you to complete your gd quilt, as you gained so much wisdom on how to quilt it...fabulous quilting designs. I love love love the rose label and how you printed on the stem.
    Thank you so much for sharing your quilt story. Your Gd is going to be over joyed to see it!
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    Old 05-13-2020, 05:00 AM
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    That is one great quilt!!! Wow is all I can say, just beautiful! You are clever, creative, and a great grandmother!

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    Old 05-15-2020, 12:51 PM
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    Originally Posted by copycat
    Every quilt has a story and I enjoyed reading about yours. It was worth the wait for you to complete your gd quilt, as you gained so much wisdom on how to quilt it...fabulous quilting designs. I love love love the rose label and how you printed on the stem.
    Thank you so much for sharing your quilt story. Your Gd is going to be over joyed to see it!
    Thank you!
    The dedication on the stem looks printed but it is actually embroidered. At first I used a script fancy font in purple thread but it looked too Victorian and the quilt has more of a contemporary modern look so I opted to redo w a close to a typewriter font in black thread.

    the way I did it is cut (on the bias”) a 3” wide strip of fabric, placed stabilizer on the hoop and floated the strip to embroider it in 2 continues parts till I fit in the text.
    I then trimmed it to the width of the stem w text centered and placed a wonder under 1/4” strip to help temporarily placing it. The bias cut allowed it to easily curve the stem.

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    Old 05-15-2020, 04:02 PM
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    Originally Posted by FabQuilter
    Thank you!
    The dedication on the stem looks printed but it is actually embroidered. At first I used a script fancy font in purple thread but it looked too Victorian and the quilt has more of a contemporary modern look so I opted to redo w a close to a typewriter font in black thread.

    the way I did it is cut (on the bias”) a 3” wide strip of fabric, placed stabilizer on the hoop and floated the strip to embroider it in 2 continues parts till I fit in the text.
    I then trimmed it to the width of the stem w text centered and placed a wonder under 1/4” strip to help temporarily placing it. The bias cut allowed it to easily curve the stem.
    this is really terrific. Will have to remember that for a special quilt
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    Old 05-17-2020, 02:56 PM
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    Thank you I am glad you liked it.
    Happy quilting
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