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Done!

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I don't always keep track of how long it takes me to complete a quilt, but on this set of projects made with African fabrics, I know I started on December 7, 2018, when I took a workshop with Bill Kerr on using large-scale fabrics , so five projects done over the course of 6 weeks, with one of those weeks spent out of town.  (The two pale green baby-quilt tops I'm leaving just as tops until I have someone to give them to.) I've posted before about the flying geese baby quilts, and the half-square triangle lap-sized quilt. I then went on to make a table runner and baby quilt out of what I had left from the yardage from which I made a table cloth some months ago. I used another large piece of African fabric on the back of each piece. I particularly like the back of the table runner (below).  Maybe this will turn out to be the front.  I bound the table runner in some hand-dyed rusty-red fabric, and the baby quilt with pieces of the same African fabric as the front. ...

Quilting in progress

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I'm about 4/5 done with the machine quilting, stitching a line on each side of every seam. Pretty tedious work, but I'm enjoying seeing each of the fabrics close up as they go by.