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| Fuse a wonderful blue dot measuring 1 1/2″ to a background fabric. |
You may ask did I do anything on this wonderful Baltic cruise other than eat a lot and buy a lot of socks?
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| Place 8 straight stitches around the dot with Lazy Daisy stitches for leaves. |
Why, yes. I did! I gave myself this assignment during the cruise: add hand embroidery to a small quilt top.
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| Finish the edge of the circle with an Outline Stitch. |
It was so hard to concentrate! (I kept getting distracted by desserts on the Lido deck.)
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| Use a variation of the Sheaf Stitch to make flower petals. |
But slowly my little quilt top was complete by the time we arrived back in the States. Good thing too!
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| Add French Knots to the flower petals using the wonderful Aquamarine colorway in Size 12. |
This quilt was needed for my filming of 2 episodes of Quilting Arts TV with Pokey Bolton. Soon after my return from the cruise, Frieda Anderson and I raced off to Ohio for the shoot. (“Shoot” is a Hollywood term for making a movie. The Hollywood term for me is “the Talent”.)
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| Final version of a small area of the quilt made by “the Talent”. |
Can you guess what the final quilt looks like? I’ll give you a hint: I don’t traditionally make this type of quilt.
