One down, one almost there!
Today I got the binding done on the memorial quilt for my best friend's mom, who passed away in May. It's only 14x18, but machine applique with trapunto and some free-motion embroidery. Used Ricky Tims' piped binding techique to bring out the slight red accent color. I've got pictures posted under the yahoo Quiltguy group (without binding)
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and will put some on my own site one of these days... The other quilt is the black-on-black that I started in the depths of winter. Today I worked through the three-dimensional chiffon and the remaining velvet piece. And I finished the binding over the curves on the bottom - some turned out to be so tight that I had to use a "drawstring thread" to get the other side flat before stitching. All in all, I'm pretty pleased! I still need to attach one planet that will extend past the binding and add some quilting and couching in key places. Picture in same place -
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is pretty bad - I need to take a few detail shots to show what'sreally going on.-- Cheers!
Jim in PA Lord of Being In Several Places At Once
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