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Just in time for Moon Day Monday, I finished my quilt!

I learned many things on this one, including:

- nesting your seams is a thing and it really helps with nice aligned corners, who knew??

- inset circles. Now I fear nothing, including God

- how to use the long arm with a pantograph

- the easy way to change thread on the long arm because the inner blocks were too light for the medium grey thread I was using

- how to stress out my grandfather stopping at various points on the pantograph because I wanted to do something different in the moons and finally

- fun things about free motion quilting, so I could put the correct textures of our beautiful lady into the different phases on the blocks.

The holiday quilt is done. Small lap quilt made of reclaimed materials. Fully handsewn and hand quilted. Closeups below for the quilting stitches.

^ embroidered a net onto the front pocket of these overalls

... I think I might have been insane for this 😳

Same pattern, different modifications. The parts that made me question my sanity the most: on the left, the double 500+ stitch Latvian Braids, and the fact that I had to remake it three times because the colors kept bleeding even after pre-washing the yarns; on the right, FOUR i-cord loop braid sections, and several false starts before I finally got the colors right 🫠

He isn't finished, I have a few more mods in mind, but I had to share him. I can't stop laughing at him, he is pure joy and unhinged whimsy. I'm thinking of naming him Vertigo, but name suggestions are so welcome!

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