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.