On January 18, 2014, I joined a workshop given by the London Friendship Quilt Guild taught by Jill Buckley on wool applique and embroidery embellishment. This was a really fun workshop. I finished the top and all the embroidery and beading a long time ago, but every time I dug it out of my ufo bin of items to be quilted, I froze and couldn't decide how to quilt it. A couple of weeks ago I had it in my hands again and made myself put the needle down and step on the pedal of my sewing machine and get it done! It only took a few hours! It really is true that you just need to start sewing and something will happen ☺! So happy that it is finished finally. I hope to hang it in my sewing room.
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I quilted it on my Bernina 830 vintage machine
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I found a few filler ideas in various machine quilting books.
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The batik insert looked a little puffy when the dense quilting was finished in the black area so I hand quilted along some of the lines and added beads to the darker areas.
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The finished wall hanging
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The whole class with our projects (photo courtesy of Gail McHardy-Leitch).
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