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This got much wordier than I originally intended, so set forward apologies.

Over the years (which makes me entire like I middle more than the 10-odd I’m in fact referring to), I have surfed about through eBay, prosperity stores, old-fashioned shops and compound sales, snapping up anything vaguely quilt-connected that was scrappy, included feedsack fabrics, and/or was under $50. While I regard with affection quilting, quilts, applique and the other divers needlearts, I find that piecing the sorts of quilts I be fond of most (see above re: scrappy, feedsacks, etc.) is not my beloved part of the process. The thoroughgoing quilting, however, IS, being the same sort of soothing repetitive palm and fingers motion that knitting brings to the slab.

(That brown and frosty print in the upper direct hand bend is one of my favourite fabrics in this quilt top)

Commonly, because I have my hands into so many distinct crafty pursuits and only so many minutes in a day in which I might give a loose rein to them, I have machine quilted most of my own projects. All the while, though, I have been stashing not present quilt tops found here and about, and got it into my noddle that while machine quilting would be faster, what I truly wanted was to palm and fingers quilt them.

(This discharge was an accident, but I delight in it — my generally received camera is not an SLR, so acquirement this kind of deepness of field on end can be sort of a crapshoot.)

Certainly my blog neighborhood in 2007 — or rather, the be destitute of thereof — is an of the highest order demonstration of roads paved with intentions galore, so what with one created being and another, I never seemed to get around to these beauties.

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