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 At the last All Day Sew, I dug in my "good trash" and pulled out a bunch of fabrics.  Some of my quilting friends looked uhhhhhh doubtful.  They will see, next time we meet.  Here are some of the panels, or blocks.  Any size will do, any colors, but I kept the pieces mostly square or rectangular. 

 My letters are 4 inches, and after a review of Steam-a-Seam 2, this is the draft product.  

The borders will be reduced as needed, land I'll do a blanket stitch around the letters. Then I'll layer it with batting and do ...

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A friend joked that my recent Crumb fabric was probably just freshly cut up fabric so it LOOKED like crumbs but (friendly scarcasm) probably wasn't really from the trash basket.  So I pulled out all the blocks I made several weeks ago and laid them next to the most recent crumb block WELCOME banner.  See?  There are all the fabrics - I told you so! 

I used spray basting to sandich the banner and had planned to hand quilt it.  However, my needle refused to cooperate, I am guessing it's because of the spray basting product.  Makes sense - it ...

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This is all crumb piecing.  What FUN to sew it all together and have it end up kinda cute!  Didn't take long and I DID concentrate on these colors, all from the trash basket.  There is hand quilting around the letters.  The letters are outlined with black machine blanket stitches.  On the back corners, I sewed triangles into the binding, and inserted a short little dowel for hanging ease.

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