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Welsh Quilting - By Machine!!

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My first proper post on this blog..... And I thought I'd start with something to get you talking/thinking. Now usually I hand quilt my Welsh Quilts and love doing so. Welsh Quilts = Hand Quilting But One day I decided to see just how small I could machine quilt (freemotion machine quilt). And Inspired by the book Making Welsh Quilts by Mary Jenkins and Claire Claridge I used their plan for The Brecon Star Quilt quilting - as it was on the book page. No enlarging for me And I made this rather lovely piece. It's A4 size, that's the size of a normal piece of photocopy paper. But - don't try this at home folks! Well you can if you want. But Remember this quilt is very small. When I tried to machine quilt a more normal sized Welsh Quilt I didn't like the results. So it's hand quilting for the rest of my Welsh Quilts - unless I decide to make another miniature that is! To see more pictures of this quilt view  my gallery page  - you will have t

Getting Started

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Just like this piece of work This blog is very much a W.I.P. Work in process. So Watch this space.........