Raise your polished trumpets for a fantastic fanfare please...
We shall toot toot toot, toot toot-etty-toot for the fabulous and finished quilts of Jeannette Dilly (Daughter-In-Law) and Jeanette Milly (Mother-In-Law)...
From one extreme to another, two different methods, both making fantastic quilts...
Dilly's quilt has been made totally by sewing machine... by piecing, sandwiching and quilting the main Feathered Star blocks and the centre woven block, setting triangles and corner triangle units. Once they were all quilted and trimmed, Dilly joined all the bits with little sashing strips... we call this method apartment quilting... A stunning quilt... One day Dilly will make and quilt some wider borders and add them to this beauty, she wants it to be much larger... but for now, it will stay this size... that's the beauty of apartment quilting, you can add extensions whenever you want to!!!
Milly, on the other hand... used the other extreme of quilting methods... She drew around templates and cut out all the pieces for her patchwork, even those individual diamonds in the Lone Star units... She hand pieced them together, a solitary needle with thread. Once she was done with the piecing, Milly hand quilted the whole thing... Beautiful work! Beautiful quilt... and she did it all sew quickly!
Wonderful quilts ladies!!! toot toot toot
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