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March 14, 2025
Hand Quilting from Magpie Quilts

All my quilts when I started quilting many years ago were hand quilted and the binding finished by hand. 

Machine quilting is much quicker and gives a very different look. No method is better or worse - you can show off your workmanship whatever method you chose. 
This table runner is made from some left over blocks that didn't make it into a full size quilt, so I pieced them together with sashing and borders and quilted by machine around the outline of the stars. 
And I'm finishing with some turquoise and brown thread by quilting by hand 1 ...

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January 12, 2021
in progress, hand stitched wrapping cloth [Flickr] from Karen Ann Ruane

contemporary embroidery posted a photo:

in progress, hand stitched wrapping cloth

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June 9, 2020
Laughter, YouTube & A Handmade Needle Roll! from Where Art & Life Meet

During these times of uncertainty I find I am rethinking my “I hate the opera” proclamations of the past, having been moved to tears listening to Maurizio Marchini serenading his fellow Florentines from his balcony during the lockdown. I cannot listen to this man without crying. And then there are those crazy goats… what’s going… Continue reading Laughter, YouTube & A Handmade Needle Roll!

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