NYE Mystery Quilt #1-Finally done!

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07-03-2017, 10:10 AM

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janjanq

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Don't know why you considered them ugly. Both are beautiful!

07-03-2017, 11:40 AM

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rryder

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Congratulations on getting it finished and teaching yourself to FMQ while doing it.! great thing to do with a UFO!

Rob

07-03-2017, 01:13 PM

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madamekelly

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I am so surprised that you do not love you beautiful pink quilt. I sure do, but I also understand that we are all different. It is nice that you can use it either side up.

07-03-2017, 01:41 PM

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Taughtby Grandma

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I like both sides of your quilt!

07-03-2017, 05:10 PM

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JJBlaine

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Again, thank you all for the wonderful praise and encouragement. You are all giving me warm fuzzies inside!

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Originally Posted by pal

I really like both sides, and would have made individual quilts out of them with muslin backing. You could always tea dye the quilt to tone down the pink or soften the white if that's what's bothering you. What a shame to do all of that work and then not be happy with the result.

Pal - What a fabulous idea to use a tea dye to tone it down a bit! I had completely forgotten the great results I had years ago when I dyed a batch of fabric to get it to blend together, except I used a tan dye instead of tea. I just might try that with this one. Thank you for the idea!

Making two quilts with a muslin backing would have been nice, but I don't have any, and I am determined to not buy any more fabric, and get my scraps under control.

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Originally Posted by salederer

Good for you! FMQ takes a lot of practice. Great job for your first try. Now you will have two quilts that if you still don't care for, will make great donation quilts. A non quilter will never notice any imperfections and you will continue to get better with practice.

salederer - Excellent point! I was so excited to see that my FMQ went from horrible to just bad as I finished the FMQ on this one. I'm shooting for reaching mediocre on the next one! lol

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Originally Posted by osewme

Congrats on getting the quilt finished. I have two UFO's in the closet right now & don't know when I will ever finish them. I like that you have a reversible quilt to use as your mood changes.

osewme - TWO!!??!! I started to make a list of my UFO's last year and gave up when I got to 50!