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A QUILT LORI HOLTS

What a busy week and weekend. We drove back and forth to Rondeau for 4 days straight and walked, and walked, and walked. I got some great shots of some birds, funky orange fungus on a log, and some scenery which I will post another day. By the time we got home and had supper and showers I was too tired to post anything. Today is a much needed day of rest playing in the lower studio. I decided to try using some Sticky Back Canvas that I won and have never used. Not sure if my idea is going to work but we’ll see. Today I’m posting a quilted wall-hanging I finally finished which I named \

Sewing

Sew what?

Finished the borders on the bugs in a jar quilt today. Here is the finished twin bed sized quilt top. I was planning to make the blue border look like a book (jar) case. The blue I finally found to match a few days ago has too much stretch to it and so I decided to use the border I did, because it has almost no stretch and was a little bit heavier cotton. The fabric that started this idea is the outside border and the bug fabric between the rows of jars. It was one piece of fabric that alternated strips of the yellow bug and flower design’ then the crawling bugs design. I bought it about 6 years ago and finally my mom and sister found the last 7 bug fabrics for me a few months ago. I found many jar pattern, but nothing that was just what I wanted, so I drew my own. The most time consuming part was folding all of the 1 1/2\

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Bug jar quilt

I finally finished the top today. I auditioned pieces of material for a border around the bronze and came up with a really nice one of boysenberry and basic blue (ProChem) but the piece wasn’…