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close-up of quilting |
This week I am machine quilting a blue and off-white quilt from a pattern called Wedding March. I originally saw a quilt on "Simply Quilts" using this pattern. I think I need to remember when I see a quilt that I love that maybe what I love is the color combination. I do love blue, but the quilt on the show was browns and reds. I have 4 tops waiting to be quilted, well maybe more than that in my UFO's, but I am not counting those, so I decided to get started. It took about a year and half to piece this thing together with all those 1 inch half square triangles. Let's hope it doesn't take me that long to quilt it. I discovered today that my thread kept breaking when quilting the areas with white painted or printed on top of the off white background. Grrrrrr. Changing the needle did not help. I am using a sharp size 90. I am using variegated Sulky 30 wt. thread. It is color 4001 which is shades of tan and off-white.

People always ask how I can quilt big quilts on my regular sewing machine. You see here that I just wad it up.
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I love to use this heavier weight cotton because it shows up better on the quilt. The thread comes off the spool nicely on this 8 spool thread rack for my machine, |
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