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I'm trying to reserve my quilting page for actual FINISHED quilts. Since lately it seems I keep working on quilt tops and not quilting, that page hasn't been updated in very long time. Hopefully by this spring that will change drastically.

Every quilter has a favorite type of quilting to do. My first love is piecing, and I somewhat enjoy the the challenge of a difficult pattern. I have a quilting buddy that hates piecing and prefers the more modern quilts (where you saw strips in different designs). The traditional piecing makes her cringe, mainly because she hates triangles. She hates them so much that she gave me an entire kit she had bought years ago and started. I finished the top and gave it back to her to quilt, but she laughed and said no. So it's in my stack of quilt tops to be finished.



While I would have chosen the star pattern, I would have never chosen these fabrics. The entire quilt was green, pink, and brown prints. Sometimes I had to get help from Bobby as the directions would say "use the dark green prints" and I was seeing brown.  Some of them were actually brown with a little pink or green in them, but number-wise they had to be included with the dark greens to make it work. I'm relatively pleased with how it turned out (not sure I've had a quilt I've ever 100% been proud of), and am a little excited to know that I can survive stepping out of my color comfort zone to quilt. We would laugh that I'd sew one day and think "Yes, this is working." and then the next day I would be moaning "This is the ugliest quilt ever. It's going to be hideous!" But when all was said and done, it came together. I've saved the pattern instructions, and I may have to attempt this in either blues, a red/white, or a black/yellow/white combo.

Now back to laundry...

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