crocus999 wrote:
Now that you mention it, I might hang on to them until the quilt show in the assisted living facility where my MIL lives.
It's the kind of quilt that these folks would remember. Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll have to check with my sister-in-law to see if she's OK with me keeping them until August.

These are so beautiful and you are adding so much to them. Are you planning to have a 'show' of them - in a corner of your next local guild show, or the library. I'm sure not only us TQS-ers appreciate them.

Margo, thanks for sharing this "experience" with us. We are learning a lot.

Oh yeah...there was also this little surprise! Daylight in the middle is not a good thing!

Because none of the surrounding fabrics are effected, I'm thinking that it was probably something that was on this little piece of fabric before it got sewn into the quilt.



I used Bo-Nash bonding powder to fuse a patch on the back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_zzlIUTP8



And the patch outlined in orange shows the patch through the holes. I stitched over the area to secure the raw edges.

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Today's adventure begins with checking the sides before I attach the borders.
This is the kind of thing I'm finding.
The orange lines mark piecing lines to make patches large enough, and they aren't much of a problem.
A tear, however, needs a creative tuck!



Luckily this top measured close to the same across the middle and both ends of each side, so making perfect miters was not a problem.



I got the top mounted and plan to stabilize everything with Superior's VANISH thread before I start quilting.

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This is really about creative piecing and creative quilting, never boring .
The finished quilt are beautiful

Wow, Margo! What a story those quilts can speak now!! What great names and patterns you chose for them. Thank you for sharing them all with us!

Handi-Quilter 16, with a Pro-Stitcher (for computerized quilting) and I luv my machine!

http://www.handiquilter.com/product/hq-sixteen-stitch-regulated-quilting-machine/

Thanks for the photos, Margo. Can I ask what kind of machine you are doing them on? I can see the edge of it in a few pics.

Thanks for the votes of confidence, but I'm sure there are lots of more experienced long-armers who could provide a lot more useful info than what I've learned with these 10 quilts! We can just keep it between us!

Ditto to all the accolades, Margo! I think Lois is on to something...if you don't write a book, you certainly have enough material/pictures/experience to write a detailed article about the subject. Maybe QN would be interested in hearing from you! Thanks, as always, for sharing your knowledge and experiences with us. Nancy

Boy, Margo - it sounds like those quilts have provided some interesting challenges. No better person for the job than you though. You're such a pro, and the quilts are finishing up great.

What a lot we have all learned! Thanks so much. What an adventure! You could write a book on this topic. I am sure this a procedure many quilters are faced with when family and friends discover old treasures.

Margo, you're doing an excellent job on these not so perfect quilts. I definitely don't balance my work and my life. It's either quilts or everything else. For the rest of this year it will be mostly everything else. Maybe when we get moved I will get more organized and try to stick to a better schedule.