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What a fun quilt, QM! And good job on those feathers. I bet your practice pays off big time.

Rob

QM that is so pretty. Great job

Janice - this will be a beautiful runner. Love the colors. QM gorgeous feathers.

What beautiful piecing on the table runner, Janice!

That is a great quilt, Rob! You are so creative to get from wonky squares to that finish.

Beautiful work as always, QuilterMomma!

Ah shucks, thanks everyone. :o
Anna is working on some neat projects, she sends me text pics. She is a very good quilter as well.
Now to get some more quilts done to work on that edge to edge so I can enter another quilt in a show. Told hubby I need to make two outfits for the next Manusco quilt show and he just laughed at me. Yeah, I do tend to overwhelm myself.

Good job, QM!! Love your feathers!!

As far as someone's comment about "getting that good", I've found that when I have a UFO that I'm not being excessively "perfectionist" about (in other words, I don't like it anymore :D ), I find that I'm a lot more relaxed.If you practice on something that "doesn't matter", and your focus is on refining a quilting skill (feathers, ruler-work, FMQ, whatever), then you don't stress about having to be perfect, and USUALLY by the time you are finished, you discover that you have mastered that particular skillset.
Practicing on paper is great to get the "muscle memory" down, but when you actually get started on the quilt itself, that monster of perfectionism often destroys our self-confidence.

Get the ugly flimsies, the yardsale finds, the "what was I THINKING?!?!?" tops, and use them to focus on the quilting skills you want to refine. Once you're done, you will surely be surprised at just how good you actually are... and the quilt is no longer an "ugly duckling".

love the runner Janice and your scrappy Beth. Need to have hubby build me a long arm table soon. Here's the pic's Janice, don't have the quilt binding done yet so it will be a November finish.[ATTACH=CONFIG]561596[/ATTACH]

Yup, I've decided that my everyday quilts aren't going to be heirloom quilts so practice away....now my current scrap quilt, may be a different story, but I will treat it special then...

Pretty blue finishes jaba:thumbup:

beautiful finish Jaba