I finished the quilting on this quilt yesterday.

I haven't quilted a feather border for a while.  I really enjoyed it.

The pink border  is just  a "c" hook.  The middle border I did the same as the center; an all over echo swirl.

The back is a solid pink fabric, really shows the quilting.

The weather was nice so I could take the photos outside.

Earlier in the day there was snow on the deck.  

Today it's in the high 60's.

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Quilting away

Can you spare a dime?

This is one of Libby's. She pieced this one at our Quilt Retreat.

I quilted an all over E's and 3's design. 

This is also Libby's.  

She asked me to quilt it just like the quilt on the pattern.

I couldn't really tell what was quilted in the background block of the pattern so I just micro stippled it

the back

I blogged about finishing this baby quilt here. 

But after it was washed I just wasn't happy with it--too poofy.

so I re-loaded it 

 and did a squiggly line through the grey block centers in each direction with a variegated thread.

Much better.

Three Rivers Quilters annual show was last weekend.

 This was my entry. 

I didn't take too many pictures the show was quite crowded.  They have a slide show of the winners here.  The Best of Show quilt is amazing.

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I finished this customer quilt yesterday afternoon. It's all flannels top and back.
I did a swirl echo on it (from the Pajama Quilter), it gave it really nice texture, especially with it being flannel fabric!

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I loaded my little Swoon block sample and got that quilted before I load the next customer one.
I'm going to make this into a pillow...so my first Christmas gift is about done!

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Urban Birthday is a flimsy.

On the design wall now is this one from Sunday Morning Quilts.
 I am going to try to just take my time with this
 and piece the rows s-l-o-w-l-y.
(ha-ha --I did say "try")  
I don't need another baby quilt (right this second anyway) nor do I need another flimsy.

This pattern uses the cut off triangles from piecing binding. I use 2 1/4 inch strips for binding rather than the 2 1/2 strips most people use. I didn't have enough of them so I would say a good half of these I just cut from the 2 1/2 inch strip bin. 

After I got it all arranged on the wall, I thought perhaps I should make it bigger.
And then I smacked myself and came back to reality.