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I have had most of the week to piddle and sew, you’d think I would have been more productive. I have projects in progress, but the stand and stare time has been massive, LOL! Plus, an entire day and a half was spent wrestling with my new embroidery machine. After playing with it for a day, I was ready (or so I thought) to do a label for Quadrille. Ah, but the thread had other ideas.

Thanks to my friend, Mary, I had learned the day before how to back up the needle so I could take out areas ...

It took several more sessions with the longarm, but I finally got the topper done. When we left off last week, I was just getting started quilting the half-circles in the squares. I marked a line on the ruler with tape to line up on the seam to get them uniform in size.

Overall, I think it looks OK, for my first attempt at small curves like this.

I got into a rhythm as it went along, and it became a bit less tedious. Eventually, I got to the last of the squares.

Next was the decision on the borders ...