Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Dancing Away the Blues

Well my square dance quilt is quilted and washed and ready to use. All I did was quilt in the ditch, but even that took a long time. I realized while quilting it how much I don’t like moving around a lap size quilt under my domestic machine. I can’t imagine quilting anything larger than lap size this way. It makes me want a long arm quilting machine and frame. Dream on….

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The goal for this quilt was to use up blue squares in my stash from a fabric exchange as well as use up more blues for the back of the quilt. Here is the back of the quilt showing how I used up the rest of the blue squares as well as some other fabrics in my stash. I also used different light blues/whites for the binding. Even though I used up quite a bit of fabric, I still have more in my closet.

squaredance2

The parade yesterday in NYC was great. The weather was fantastic and we had a really good time.

Chris

7 comments:

  1. Wonderful finish Chris! Glad the weather was good for the parade.

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  2. I love the colors, beautify job

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  3. It looks beautiful Chris! It certainly is a keeper.

    I was hoping we would get the New York parade on TV but we didn't, so I couldn't see you walking -

    I am glad you had fun. Now that St. Patrick's day is over spring should follow. Shirley

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  4. It turns out that the parade was running late because in one of the first bands that marched a drummer collapsed and died of a heart attack. Because it was so late by the time we stepped off, we were not on TV. They had already taken down the camera equipment. My husband has marched 5 times and was only on TV twice.

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  5. This is just lovely Chris! You did such a beautiful job on both the back and the front! Terrific work! And..glad you had fun at the parade!!

    Kathy

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  6. Great job, Chris! I love it!
    And a belated Happy St. Patrick's Day. Isn't it great that you were on break and able to go to NYC for the parade.

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  7. Chris the colors are just wonderful, yu go girl.

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