Howdy!
That is magnificent; beautiful center, pointy points, great carry-thru' to the corners, and well-quilted! Yee-Haw! One of the "cleanest" Mariner's Compass quilts I've seen, sharp and clear and pointy and straight--wow!
Good for you. That's a beauty.
Ragmop/Sandy
It's beautiful. Great job. Gen
WOW!!! What a beauty! You did an awesome job. Some day I hope to get up enough courage to try a Mariners Compass quilt. Good luck at the quilt show.
Hugs, Mika
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That's fantastic! What glorious quilting - way way beyond anything I could attempt. Was the quilting done on a domestic machine? Is all the white background 'whole cloth' or is it pieced?
Congratulations and good luck for the show (and the baby!).
Hugs Bronnie Oz
Absolutely gorgeous! Didn't ya about die when that ink pen came tumbling out of the dryer???
I'd a been ascared to look.
Cindy
That is a really lovely quilt! I have my fingers crossed for you, and my toes, and my eyes..........LOL! I don't think your quilt needs anything from me, it will do fine on its own merits. You created something wonderful.
It is wonderful!!!
Absolutely beautiful! Mariner's Compass is on my 'Do Before I Die List'. :) Good luck with the competition--I can't imagine why you wouldn't do very well with this!
Nancy in NS
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Thanks Roberta! I hadn't even thought of trying the hoop thing, I'll give it a shot. As I said the tucks are very small, One I know for sure I can stretch out, but the other two might just be a smidge too big to get rid of at this point. I'll give it a shot and see what happens if worse comes to worse they may just have to live in the quilt and hopefully will go unnoticed. Just thinking about it now I might even be able to put the hanging sleeve or my label over the two that I can't get out as they are very close to each other!
Thanks! The work was done on my trusty Babylock esante, embroidery machine. I'm not sure of that is what you would call a domestic machine but it certainly is no fancy longarm with lots of space under it, that is for sure! I think the throat on it is about 6.5", so for anyone who says they can't do big quilts on their machine, you just haven't tried hard enough! LOL
The white background was pieced with 3 lengths of fabric to get me the width I needed then I basically reverse appliqued the compasses in using the freezer paper and glue method that Sharon Schambers uses for her pieclique technique. I basically put it together like it was going to be the backing of the quilt.
Thank you so much to all of you for your wonderful comments! You all sure know how to make a gal' feel good about the work she has done!
It is one of those things, when I start a project I am so excited and I can see in my head how I want it to look and I am just bursting with excitement wanting it to be done knowing how special it will be. Then after doing a project for as long as this one took, I am still very proud of what I have accomplished and even though it is the best quilt I have ever made I have been looking at the darned thing for so long now that in some ways I look at it and think .... ahhhh, its just another quilt, no big deal.
Looking at all these comments though, sorta beats that out of my head a little bit! Thanks!
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