Yesterday I was down in Fairview Heights and passed by this statue in front of an animal hospital. A live dog was sniffing around it, but I just had to get a quick picture out of my car window. This just made me smile!
Something else that made me smile was getting this quilt loaded and started quilting it.
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I got about one turn done on it today. Doing the Baptist Fans for the quilting. It's a little sloppier than I would like, but it's not a show quilt, so the mistakes are okay.
I remembered seeing online somewhere that someone made a 'sling' for the batting to be in under the longarm when a quilt is loaded. It was made out of a shower curtain cut in half longways and sewn together at the ends. Then it was hung from the table and the batting rested in it and not on the floor. I made one and am pleased with the results.
It is hung by bungee cords and I made the back hang a little lower than the front. It's like a large open envelope for the batting.
1 comment:
do you do your quilting free-hand ?. I dabble a little with machine quilting on my mid-arm machine.
Love seeing your quilts...please show it again when you are done with the quilting.
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