Update! I got my Synthrapol from Dharma, re-washed my quilt in HOT water with plenty of synthrapol. It went through the entire gentle cycle by machine. Then it went into the dryer and dried all the way, with no damp spots that might run or bleed. This took out most of the previous color bleeding, if not all of it. Yippee!!! And the color catchers were dark gray. There was still a lot of excess dye in that quilt even after its initial washing.
Crocus, I didn't mark the names. Here's what I did:
Took Debbie's excel file of names, extracted first name and last initial. Ran a character count- it was around 3600 characters.
Did some samples of free motion names to see how many characters I could fit into a row.
With 51 rows, the first name and last initial would fit perfectly.
Rearranged the Excel file to give me 51 rows of names, which i could print out and follow to quilt.
I had 2 inch blocks, so could fit 2 rows of quilting along each row of HST's. Just marked the halfway point along the row on the quilt and the list to keep track of how I was doing.
It was so much fun!!!!!
If someone's quilt is bigger, or their natural quilting size is smaller, they could probably fit first and last names on the quilt.
I DID quilt every other row of names for the first pass, so as not to draw up half of the quilt and leave the unquilted half poofy. I had to ditch quilt along each block row to prevent the seamline from sticking up.
I can't wait to see what other people do!
Kathy
