All I can say is WOW!!!!! I love it. Adopt me, please.

Ditto! I love batiks and I love this quilt! Stunning!

I totally agree...beautifully crafted

OTE=dakotamaid;5687497]That is so pretty. I love the fact you did the embroidery. Makes it even more special. :)[/QUOTE]

Just "Wow!"

The patchwork, your embroidery, and the fabrics are just lovely! She is sure to love it!

Beautiful quilt! The embroidery is a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

What a gorgeous quilt. Like the embroidery stitches. Lots of work in it. Well done

What more can I say that hasn't already been said ..... I agree with all the above comments. Thanks for sharing the details .... great inspiration!

that is an awsome quilt, did you embroider this after the batting and backing went on or did you embroider the blocks?

I did foundation piecing onto muslin, did the embroidery, then pieced the quilt, sandwiched and tied the squares sitting at the kitchen table watching 4 versions of Criminal Minds (by the way watching more than one of these is way too many), then quilting in the sashing and did SID around the squares, then used adding machine tape to make the inner border, quilted the borders with stippling, then made the binding by sewing together random sizes of batik strips, then cut that into strips, and sewed them together to get my 400+inches of binding. I got wiser with the pillow shams and did the tying with using the machine and doing bartacks. much faster for the smaller pillow shams. Would have been cumbersome to do the whole quilt that way.. Once again, thank you everyone for your kind words.