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 My Impromptu quilt is finally quilted! It has taken me so long to pack it up and send it to Kim at l'Atelier du Long Arm, not sure why! Anyway, I sent it very late March and Kim managed to quilt it in April, despite originally thinking she won't get to it until the summer. And I received it back earlier this month. This quilt is huge (90'' square) that's why I wanted to have it quilted professionally. 

Kim used a beautiful flowery feather motif on my top. The quilt has a lot of negative space so ...

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I had 4 tops to quilt on the frame. After finishing the bear, the next I loaded last weekend was the Christmas tree. 

and finished by signing.

I thought it would be a good reminder to quilt "Covid" as well since this year has been all about this nasty virus. Well, I only managed "Cov" until my machine stopped. Point blank stop. Needle down, into the quilt, hand wheel ...

With 4 quilt tops ready, it was time to get the quilting frame out, which we did last Saturday.Of course I need to get the backings ready too so for the bear, I digged very deep into my stash. I found these prints that I must have for over 15 years, perfect for a little boy living on a farm!

Last top finished, first one quilted? Well yes! That was not the original plan but since I ran out of thread for my bear on Saturday night, I figured I should take it off the frame and replace it with another quilt for which I had enough thread to last the week-end! So on came the Retro Tetro quilt top.

For this one, I had planned to use same colours as the fabric, which of course, meant changing threads very often! I used an all-over quilting motif for the top and used up so many bobbins.     

I really like how ...