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Monday 6 May 2013

Lesley's Quilt


Last week I finished quilting Lesley’s lovely linen and cotton quilt top which she’d entrusted to me.


She’d decided on all-over feather meander, which I love quilting – you need to keep your wits about you though, so you don’t end up quilting yourself into a corner!


Lesley chose a thread to match the plain linen fabric.  I haven’t quilted any linen before, and I did really like the effect.  Maybe I’ll be making a linen quilt in the future?
 

Just after I’d taken the quilt off the frame I dropped a bobbin on the floor behind the quilt frame, and as I was scrabbling around trying to find it, I noticed the effect of the light from the window coming through the needle holes on the quilt.  You can see the seam allowances of the quilt top too, if you look carefully - hold a quilt top up to the light and the seam allowances are like the leading in a stained glass window.  (Don’t be alarmed – the holes disappear!  Longarm machines use fairly sturdy needles, so they withstand the hammering they get in an industrial machine.  Immediately after you’ve quilted a top you can see the holes when you hold a quilt up to the light, but they close up soon afterwards!) 


See – no holes to be seen!

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