I do not own a quilting frame, and my attempts at FMQ have been fledgling and very small scale - so finishing my quilts over the years has consisted of a great deal of straight line quilting and tying.
Thank goodness for
Jill - being able to send some of my tops to her for finishing on her frame has been a wonderful option. I first sent her
Summer Sunshine two years ago - and still need to take some "finished" photos of this quilt, though it has been on my bed for ages now. She also did
this quilt and
this one, too. But I have been very very bad at taking the BEFORE and AFTER pictures to show what a good quilting job can do to make a quilt go WOW!!!! (and so many quilts get gifted before I get the AFTER pictures - something about finishing binding on the way to a party may have something to do with that!)
Until this one:
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| Nearly finished - just auditioning borders. |
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| Completed flimsy. I liked it - but all that muslin kind of left me "flat". |
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| After Jill got her hands on it - it hasn't been washed, but now there is some movement in all that open space. |
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| Love this square spiral - the quilt is for a young man, and this really gives it a great masculine feel. |
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| Look at how the back just sparkles!!! |
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| And doesn't every quilt need to come with a 6 year old with attitude (I think it's the hooded sweatshirt that does it!) |
