As a new quilter, I hand embroidered this penny square. It was from a guild program about Redwork and everyone exchanged a penny for a pre-drawn design on muslin.
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| Penny square rework design. |
This piece is not that big (17.25" x 14.75") but I hand quilted it. Believe it, or not! Look at the cross hatching. There is also a rope braid quilted in the outside border. Aaah, I was so ambitious and nostalgic in those days.
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| Braided rope border pattern. |
Does everyone go through that phase where they want to do traditional hand quilting on all their quilts? Or maybe it was the guild I was in. It had a lot of members who were third-, fourth- and maybe fifth-generation traditional [hand] quilters. I didn't have the patience (nor the history in my genes) to get that good at it, so I'm glad I found free-motion machine quilting and the quilt-it-by-hand phase quickly passed. I am much better with the machine.
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| Redwork rabbit. Hand quilted. 17-1/4" x 15-3/4" |
My current guild, the
Choo Choo Quilters, is dedicating this year's programs to handwork. I presented last month's program,
"Quilting with Hexagons." The April program is about embroidery on quilts, so this little bunny has come out to play at a guild once again… and just in time for Easter, too.
