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Completed Quilts

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 Over the summer I finished up a few quilt projects, but forgot to put up photo's of them until now. This quilt called "Crazy Hearts" was finished back in 2004, but I was never happy with the quilting and binding on it. So last year I took off the hanging sleeve and binding and machine quilted it. Originally the only quilting was stitch-in the ditch around the blocks and just to outline the hearts, so this time I free-motion quilted all the blocks. The original binding was pink and blue (horrible stuff) so I finished it off with plain black binding this time which I thinks looks a lot better! Didn't think it would take me a year to get around to finishing it off, but I am glad I took it apart now.                  This quilt "Scrap-pile mystery quilt" was a mystery quilt project from the Mid-West branch a few years ago. The quilt top was completed for a year or so, but hadn't got around to quilting it as it's a fairly large q...

Off to Birmingham tomorrow!

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Finally got my mystery quilt top stitched together - this was from a mystery quilt project from the Mid-West Branch. It's a large quilt though, so will have lots of fun trying to get it quilted later on. I'm off to Birmingham tomorrow afternoon for 5 days at the Festival of Quilts (yay!). I'm doing a two-masterclass with Jette Clover - been getting the requirements list items ready today...