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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Adding to the UFO List.....I thought it was Done!





          It's been a busy week but, I did get some sewing in on my Santa wall hanging.  Just about done with the FMQ and on to binding.  I did a holly leaf design in the outside border that I found inspiration from the Free Motion Quilting Project " prickly holly".  I did it in more of a vine pattern with the holly branching off from it.  I will say those leaves were a bit hard but by the time I got around the the whole border it looked pretty good.  You can see on the bottom right that I have not stitched down the binding.It will be 1/4 inch.   



 Can't forget Reindeer need red button noses, well one gets red, there is only 1 Rudolf!!


     Now on to the UFO's....not that I want to add to them but BUT, I have this little wall hanging that I finished a couple of years ago and I REALLY love it but, was not great at FMQing, I never put anything in the sashing or borders.   Here are pictures.....I would love to hear some ideas for around the flowers and borders.  Do I treat the 2 white and 1 color as all one border or do I quilt each strip with it's own pattern?  The colored borders around the flower vases are empty also, it's just asking for more.....

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I just did stippling around all the flowers and stitch in the ditch everywhere else....




This is my favorite block, I love the vase fabric...It was a fat quarter from Joann's I think and I horded the scraps...



So now that the Santa quilt is out of the machine I am ready to do some FMQing to this previously finished quilt.  Love to hear your comments.....Kristin