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1. That was a huge project for one person,
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 02:46 PM
Dec 2019

especially a 99 year old woman to undertake. My SIL is an avid quilter and has seriously mad skills when it comes to any type of sewing. She also keeps an eye out for quilts at flea markets, thrift stores and garage sales. She makes gorgeous quilts by hand, belongs to several quilting circles, judges quilt shows, teaches classes and even sells a few. Quilts this large and detailed would be a group project that might take years to complete.

Just doing the embroidery for each state would be extremely time consuming and require a skilled needle worker who knew all the complex stitches. Cutting the piece work for all the shapes, stitching them together, adding the back piece and filler, and then sewing the quilting stitch pattern to bind everything together... WOW!

All those mad quilting ladies did a wonderful job in completing this beautiful project.

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