Originally Posted by Glojean48

When my mom passed away 10 years ago I acquired some of her crewel embroidery projects. I intended to make them into wallhangings for each of my three nieces as a Christmas gift one year. Well, that year was going to be 2016 - however, I couldn't find the embroidery pieces. When I looked through one of my decorative boxes that holds a lot of different projects to be finished, lo and behold, I discovered the embroidery! This was the weekend before Christmas so I had to work fast - put a simple border on all three and quilted them, finishing them in time for
Christmas. My nieces were thrilled to receive something lovingly stitched by their beloved Grandma and finished by their Auntie. Three more UFO's off my long list.:-)

Originally Posted by silliness

My company just left, so I am trying to catch up with this thread:
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Rob-Four more at the end! Your coasters/table toppers are great. I love the micro quilting on the first one. Do you use variegated thread for the quilting? Your color choices are always inspire me to take more risks with color.
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Originally Posted by rryder

Thanks Silliness,
I did use variegated thread in that first one. I enjoy using it when I can be pretty sure that all the colors will show up on the quilt top (if I want the quilting to show rather than just be a texture), but it can sometimes be problematic. I once tried to use it for an all over edge to edge design and had it not work out at all because there was one color in the thread that disappeared when it landed on a part of the quilt that had a similar color and value--my design ended up looking very discontinuous--almost like someone had gone behind me and erased parts. As a result, I ended up spending some quality time bonding with my seam ripper

Rob