I know most of you only come here for the quilting, so here's a snapshot of where I am with custom quilting my Deco bed quilt as of today:
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| The End is In Sight for Deco Stitch In the Ditch Quilting! |
Side note: I will NOT MISS those garish yellow walls in my Florida long arm studio!! At first I was living with them so as not to offend my father-in-law, but then once my long arm was set up in there the repainting took a back seat to other priorities. It is really difficult to get accurate quilt photos with such a vivid wall color as light reflects off the walls and casts yellow onto everything. Every photo taken in this space has needed to be color corrected with editing software. Here's what that photo looked like before editing:
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| Same Photo Before Editing to Correct Color |
See what I mean? And that is with white fluorescent lighting! My next studio is going to have nice NEUTRAL wall paint.
Okay, back to the quilt: I've done the interior ditch quilting in the top row of purple and blue log cabin blocks but tomorrow I'll need to back up a row and quilt the ditches around each of those green 1" square patches in the row above them. Do you see that canvas leader edge at the bottom of the photo? That is the very bottom edge of my quilt top pinned to that leader. When I get to the bottom I will still have to go back and do additional "To Be Determined" detail quilting in the pieced blocks, but at least I will be done with the tedious slog of ditch quilting.
