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    Default Bamboo FMQ almost done!

    Hi

    To day I have been fmquing all day long with lots of breaks.

    This bamboo batting is great. I have been using my small white singer sewingmachin that only have a 6" throat space. My beloved black singer is at the sewingmachine doc. And are not coming home for at least 2 Weeks!

    It is so much easier with this batting to fit in all of the quilt in my machine.
    I do not have to fight the bulk hardly at all. Compared to the poly batting where I had to strongarm the quilt to get in position.

    Of course I had to make it as hard as possible for me. as I always do!

    I choosed a new pattern to me by Amy Johnsson.
    It is a flower she showed on youtube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpni...xj4YpsRh-gyBeg


    It worked great until I got to quilt on the light fabrics. I could not see were I sticht before!!! Grrr...

    So there are lots of misstakes in this quilt. But I figure, If I cant see the stitches neither will anyone else! ;-)

    Some thing to be alert about is seam intersections. They can make you shift directions due to bulk.
    Learn that the hard way. After that lesson I learned to quilt around them.

    With poly batting this is not so much of a problem beacuse they sink in to the batting.
    But since the bamboo is so much flatter they are something to take in consideration.

    All in all I am super happy about this bamboo batting.

    Here are some pictures. Front and back and close up
    ( sorry about the bad pictures, it is late in the evening so the ligth is not so god.)

    Tell me what you think


    Annika
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    God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    The stash to make a quilt to help me cope,
    A quilt to give to comfort those I love in times of hurt, fear and uncertainty.
    And the courage to keep on sewing when life itself seems held together by a single thread of hope.

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