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The Quilted EPP Flower Quilt

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This is a follow up to Monday’s post Quilters’ Playdate: It’s All About Me! about getting the English Paper Piecing (EPP) hexagon flower quilt I’ve been working on for 10 years machine quilted.

Later in the day on Friday, my friend J texted me that she and her longarm quilting machine had finished quilting my quilt and I could come and unloaded it off of the longarm machine with her:

Here it is freshly unloaded (if only you could hear me giggling in the background as I gleefully helped her unloaded it):

Here is what the back looks like:

And here is the trimmed quilt (awesome J helped me trim the extra batting off on the long tables in her studio):

I’ve already started putting the facing on it. I am going to do a “facing” instead of a binding, like I would do for an art quilt because they denim is too thick to deal with trying to bind it.

If you’ve never heard about doing a “facing finish” on a quilt, here is a video about it:

I will share one more post of this quilt (because you all must be sick of it by now, ha!) when I finish the facing and then hang the quilt!

But right now I am feeling very:

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28 thoughts on “The Quilted EPP Flower Quilt”

  7. Hooray hooray! Isn’t it miraculous how the quilt top changes after becoming quilted and textural and three-dimensional!? And I have never heard of the facing finish on a quilt but I like it a lot, thanks for linking the video. I am not sick of the quilt at all, but it hasn’t been languishing in my house…

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  11. oh, it is quite splendid, the quilting makes a wonderful difference. Can’t wait to see the “facing finish”, I enjoyed watching the link but don’t think my skills are up to trying it. I can hear you giggling all the way to Canada.

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  14. Ten years sounds like a long time for a quilt to be finished. The result looks nice though. I am glad you were able to finish. I’m getting to an age when I don’t know if I could undergo a 10-year project and live to complete it. Weird thought.

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