I've decided that I'm tired of walking past this quilt every day, so it's time to finish it.  



I did have grand plans to use this quilt as a hand quilting sampler, but I really don't like hand quilting through cotton batting.



I prefer to use wool batting when I'm hand quilting, but I must have had a piece of cotton batting lying around that fitted perfectly, so I used cotton batting this time.

I can see that pieces of the batting are pulling through with my stitches when I'm using the thicker threads ...

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