I completed my first rag quilt! Ok. Two rag quilts. They look great and I'm pretty happy. It's a gift (as are all of my quilts) for my sister-in-law, Stephanie. I made the twin of the rag quilt for my mother-in-law, Joan (her mom). The quilts are really warm and soft. I did have to wash them several times to get them to rag correctly.
The other thing I need to work on is designing more digital quilt patterns to use on the blocks. I designed some on Babylock's Palette 10 software like the one on the left quilt square below. I'm not a very artsy person, so I need to figure out how to get more creative. I also need to work with the software to figure out how to "stitch" the designs together in order to fill the entire square. On top of that, if I make the squares larger then the 7.5 inch width of my largest hoop for the Unity, an unquilted (is that a word?) area is left. That bothers the engineer in me because the squares look unfinished. You can't tell from the picture below but some of the squares aren't quilted symmetrically. That really bothers me!
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