The last 2 days have been a little busy with other things. It's our month to mow the shared dock area on the community lake and we picked up a load of wood for next winter. Chris had already split one load and I got that stacked. You can see the new wood on the left. We have 4 rows to fill up before next winter. We have one more load to pick up from this source and then Chris is helping another friend fell some trees this weekend. When you live in a rural area, firewood always seems to come available. Inside, I baked another loaf of sourdough, have been repeatedly soaking all the dyed fabric and shirts, and I got the big quilt loaded and basted. I decided on this pantograph. It's the most complex one that I have and I don't use it often. But I feel like the motif really goes with with the batik fabrics. It's not going to show well on the front but I picked this design for how I thought it would look on the back. I'm using a dark green thread and hope that the eventual recipient will see this as a 2-sided quilt. It's going to take a week or so to quilt but I think it will be pretty once it's done.
Today I'm running errands with Mom so I don't know that I'll get anything else done but I should have the weekend to catch up and make some good progress on this quilt.
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Gene Black
5/9/2025 07:48:11 pm
I think that panto will be excellent for this quilt (and backing.) I know that I would occasionally flip it over and use the "back" as the top. Two-sided quilts make me very happy.
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Paulette
5/10/2025 12:02:23 am
That’s beautiful quilting!! I wish I could learn to panto- my brain only allows freemotion from the front of my longarm
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5/10/2025 08:41:22 am
Pretty quilt, and how dedicated you are to crawl under it to show us the quilting! That does look like a challenging panto that would be easy to get lost on.
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patty
5/12/2025 02:33:33 pm
That design is going to be pretty! I didn't get around to cutting the tree out back. You have already got quite a stack of wood!
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Mary Anne R
5/13/2025 10:01:20 am
The firewood picture would be a good jumping off point for a landscape.
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