I have spent most of this year plowing
my way through a pile of fabric panels
I have acquired over the years...
I completed the design work on this autumn
panel in March and it is time to get it
quilted and hung in our living room...
The maple leaf blocks in the border
give this quilt so much movement...
The quilt is basted and on the
Sweet Sixteen
Sit-Down Long Arm
I began the quilting in the morning and
the quilt was done by 9pm...
Most of the quilting was accomplished with
these two long arm rulers...
The top ruler is the Line Tamer
The bottom ruler is the HQ Ditch Ruler
I used the Line Tamer for all of the
vertical quilting lines on the trees
in the center of the panel...
I quilted a diagonal grid on the leaf borders...
I used the HQ Ditch Ruler
to create the piano key quilting
in the final border...
The machine quilting is complete
and it is time to trim and square up the quilt...
The 20 inch square up ruler works best !
The binding is stitched and pressed...
The binding feeds so nicely out of this
container set down between my feet...
This quilt will be displayed in our living room
so I have included a hanging sleeve
on the back...
I have a 72 inch quilt shelf that I had made
30 years ago that hangs in our living room,
and I make quilts to display on it.
The Quilt Label is stitched in place
and the quilt is officially done...
Autumn begins September 23...
we will hang it up and I will take a picture.
More To Come !
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
