Old 01-04-2016, 02:17 PM
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sewbizgirl
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Looks great to me!

My early quilts are cringeworthy. One, meticulously hand quilted but fatally flawed because I knew NOTHING about contrast and value yet. The pattern is FLAT except for a few pinks here or there that jump off the quilt!

Another is cringeworthy because I didn't have a real stash built up yet and couldn't afford to go buy a bunch of fabrics for it. It's a red/white/blue Irish chain and to get enough variety in the red and blue fabrics I had to pull from everything I had... including kiddie prints mixed in with adult prints and solids. Yuck. But again... beautifully hand quilted.

I don't hand quilt anymore because my stitches seemed to have gotten bigger and bigger and I enjoyed it less and less... but I do know a whole lot more about piecing together an attractive top than I did then.

We had to do "those" first to learn how to do better! It's all part of our quilting history and all good.
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