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    Whew I haven't had time for much commenting lately so I just caught up with many pages here. I like everyone's work that you shared.
    Cathy, your portrait quilt is wonderful! I can't imagine doing the multiples that the children of 11 siblings would involve!!
    Geneva at the risk of being too personal with Sybil and her delicate situation, may I suggest that on her next encounter with Mr. Fixit she requires the use of some protection. I feel certain that during her fling with him he gave her bugs. Eww!
    Lyndhurst, Ohio USA - East Side Suburb of Cleveland, Ohio

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      :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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        here is the top that I'm working on, This one is for my father in law. It's a "rush order" so to speak. Hes a Vietnam vet, and his health is slowly yet rapidly decreasing, I want him to have, see, and use it before the bad comes knocking. I cut 2 full large scenes, then I I did some fussy cutting for smaller individual scenes.

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          This will be "rush order" #2 if possible, my BF suggested I use on the back of the first making a reversible quilt, is that even doable?

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            Purple quilter the Asian prints are lovely. Can't wait to see what you do with them

            ~ Jen

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              You certainly can make a reversible quilt. Part of it depends on how reversible you want to make it. I like to piece an interesting quilt back that could be a top on it's own, but don't worry about whether the quilting on the top matches what I've done on the back. You can also design a back that lines up with features of the top so that the top quilting works with the back, too, but that's more difficult. Rosemary did an incredible quilt like that a while back. The other way that I make reversible quilts is to use a plain fabric for the back and make the quilting shine so you get a gorgeous wholecloth quilt on the back. For reversible quilts, I just define the top as the side of the quilt that I have facing up while I'm quilting.

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                Reversible quilts are a good thing in my book - you get two tops to one piece of batting. My first full sized quilt was designed with the idea that I would make two tops exactly the same size and then put a blanket inbetween. (As opposed to my first two quilts which were quilt as you go). I started this before I found TQS and discovered that you are supposed to make the back larger than the front :whistle: . One side is very bright and has quite small piecing and the quilting doesn't really show up on it, and the other side was much larger piecing, softer colours and the quilting was designed to compliment this. This was pretty successful, although I probably spent longer crawling around the floor lining things up and pinning them into place. (I also think that I ended up adding a narrow scrappy border to the bright & busy side after the main 'bones' of the quilting design was put in, as it drew in a bit smaller.
                Too Loud Man


                Dog Rose


                close up of the quilting - not finished, this is the main 'bones' as I call them.

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                  I'm feeling quite proud of myself today. I just finished a bag! I've never attempted anything 3D before - as I had never been taught to sew garments or other wearable objects. I found this Jinny Beyer pattern and just had to try it. There are so many imperfections it's not even funny but I don't care :cheer: I'll probably use it to carry paperwork to the office since my current bag is falling apart....I'd love to use it at my next quilt show but I'm not sure if my poor construction can handle the weight of all my goodies on the way back home :silly:

                  Here's the bag and lining before final assembly. I had no idea there were going to be so many pockets! I've never worked with zippers before and there is a hidden pocket and 2 main zipper pockets in the lining and final zipper to close the bag itself!



                  Here's the finished bag



                  Don't think I'll try to make another bag in the future - but it was a good learning experience :-) Think I'll stick to nice, flat, zipper free quilts

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                    Rosemary that is a nice bright quilt! I really like it :-)

                    ~ Jen

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                      smashing bag

                      Mug rugger and lounge lizard

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                        I'm sewing beads on a quilt taking me ages, may get the glue out in a minute :dry:

                        Mug rugger and lounge lizard

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                          Agree with Wendy, absolutely smashing bag!
                          Went to my friend Claudias this afternoon, combined brthday-, Baby welcome - and new home party... As she already received the baby-prezzie in hospital, b-day prezzie at the office, I made what every new home needs, a pair of pot holders... ( if they like them they can use & show them in the kitchen, and if they're not their style, they can be hidden in a drawer and taken out when needed )

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                            Great looking bag, Jen. And congratulations on your first ever zipper experience :woohoo: I started off with clothes sewing and after always having trouble putting zips in I found that I would rather sew half a dozen hand button holes than one zip! (I've improved a bit since then )

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                              Well now my mind racing on what to do! :lol: Both fabrics are totally of 2 different colors but they both have gold metallic in them, its not very visible in the photos. I do have a good brown/dark tanish fabric I bought to go with the first top, it matches awesomely well with the panel of ladies. Yet that would take away from the original top plan. Then the next question left in my head is what to do with the all the yardage we bought for the backing of the original top :unsure:

                              picture 1 is the red backing we chose, 2 is the brown/dark tannish that goes well with the ladies, and 3 I laid a scarp piece of original top fab that brown/tanish also goes well with.My brain flip flopping on as to how to make this work :S

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                                Love the bag! It looks like you did a great job, so I wouldn't forego making another, if I were you. I love making bags and zippers continue to get easier as you work with them. There are a lot of easy techniques for putting zippers in bags, so trying different patterns can help you learn what works best for you and gives you the experience to be able to modify patters to make them more like what you like.

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