Another vintage quilt top made into a quilt
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Below are pics of another vintage quilt top that I recently made into a quilt for a friend. The top was made (all hand-pieced) by Mary Jane (Weathers) Senter, and she was born in 1843 and died in 1937 at age 93. She married Robert Winthrop Senter in 1861 when she was 18. So the top predates at least 1937. Like the previous top I quilted, there wasn't a straight seam anywhere on the top, but that just gives it character. :)
I just did a free-motion quilt pattern all over it so it will hopefully help it hold up from any deterioration, and did a plain white backing.
I just did a free-motion quilt pattern all over it so it will hopefully help it hold up from any deterioration, and did a plain white backing.
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Cool. Just curious. What do you put your stitch length on when you do your FMQ with your BSR? Mine automatically comes up at 2 and the manual says to lower it to 1-1.5 for stippling. I don't know if I'm in love with all the tight stitching though and actually seem to like it at 2 to 2.5. I did one whole quilt at about 1.2-1.5 length and I can barely see the individual stitches they're so small:>
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Originally Posted by Candace
Cool. Just curious. What do you put your stitch length on when you do your FMQ with your BSR? Mine automatically comes up at 2 and the manual says to lower it to 1-1.5 for stippling. I don't know if I'm in love with all the tight stitching though and actually seem to like it at 2 to 2.5. I did one whole quilt at about 1.2-1.5 length and I can barely see the individual stitches they're so small:>
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Originally Posted by lnordyke
Originally Posted by Candace
Cool. Just curious. What do you put your stitch length on when you do your FMQ with your BSR? Mine automatically comes up at 2 and the manual says to lower it to 1-1.5 for stippling. I don't know if I'm in love with all the tight stitching though and actually seem to like it at 2 to 2.5. I did one whole quilt at about 1.2-1.5 length and I can barely see the individual stitches they're so small:>
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