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OK, I’ll admit to being pretty psyched about finishing the quilting on Ablaze. Sleeve and binding – no problem!

I decided I’d show it at the Berkshire quilt festival in October – still no problem. The question? should I show another one? Seems like I MUST have most of them done by then actually…. So which one next. When I was talking with Pat, she almost blurted out “Do the Winter one!” which surprised me only because I thought she’d pick the seasons quilt.

The trick is of course that I probably should do a big quilt next because soon (ack) she’ll be handing off the NYQuilts! raffle quilt to me to quilt. Even if I do only an all over design with some accenting of the pieced bits, it will take a good week to quilt.

So I got out the winter quilt (working title now “Midwinter afternoon”) and measured it. As I told her – this thing isn’t small – 48 X 84″ or so. But it’s smaller than the queen sized one that will be coming. So I got together a sample and tried out some light threads which seem to work fine on the white. This is applique and quilting at once so there are more threads involved than if I were just quilting. Probably.

Maybe I’ll look at it a bit more before starting. But any time now.

I have til tomorrow to decide whether or not to show it in Pittsfield! No pressure.