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I have procrastinated so much, simply because I just could not come to a decision on how to quilt this quilt!

To recap: I first posted about this quilt in December 2021. Way back, when my little girl really was a little girl, she wanted to make a patriotic quilt. Together, we designed and chose the fabrics, and then she cut and pieced. And then it sat for a very long time. A lot of life happened.

My not so little girl finished the applique in early 2021 (Or was it 2020?) and sent the quilt to me. I was supposed to quilt it.

We haven’t been in any hurry up to this point, so why hurry now?

Thus…procrastination.

I finally got around to pin basting by December 2021.

My goal in February 2022 was to get the stitch-in-the-ditch quilting done.

By the end of March 2022, I had finished the SITD quilting.

More procrastination.

In January 2023, I made up my mind to get this thing done!

By January 16, I had a plan for some of the blocks and set to work making stencils and machine quilting the pieced blocks.

More life, and more procrastination (Are you getting a theme here?).

What to do with the appliqued blocks?

I am happy to say that I came up with a plan and I have my part finished!

I find it difficult to photograph black thread on black fabric.

But I think I took enough photos so that you get the general idea.

I had to work out some tension issues.

Disaster struck when I washed out my chalk marks.

My daughter and I are pretty sure that back in the day, we washed all of these fabrics before using them.

But, doggone, if a red and the black didn’t bleed profusely and turn most of the light areas a plum color!

I have managed to get most of that bleeding out. What’s left doesn’t really look all that bad.

My daughter has a tub that she can soak it in, so she can circulate Dawn soap and water around much better than I can with my washing machine. She will try to rinse the rest of the bleeding color out.

I think it is okay if she can’t.

The quilt needs to be bound, and Jessica will do that.

The quilt will live with her.

Quilt On!