Is finished!! one down and I won’t even say how many more to go! I’m just glad to 
have one more quilt top finished completely. I got the binding finished on it yesterday, all that is left to do is add a label on the back. Click on photo’s to enlarged if you want. I used King Tut cotton variegated thread, this color was called Patriotic. It is of course in red/blue/& instead of white it is more of a tan. I used a tan swirl backing fabric and I always use Quilters Dream 100% cotton batting in the request loft (the lightest). When washed it shrinks up just a little bit giving it an antique look to the finish. This quilt finishes out at about 56 inches x 70 inches. I made the top at the end of 2007 and had it put away waiting around to be quilted and finally did it in January and February of this month.
So I have a question for all of you quilters out there. How do you make your label for the back of your quilt with all the information that you want remembered? I have always used pre-treated fabric sheets and would feed them through the printer and have wonderful colorful labels with pertinent information and a pretty picture. All I would have to do when done printing is let them dry and the next day I would swish in cold soapy water – dry and then heat set and they were ready to go. THEN – and that is a big then, we got a new printer as the old one wasn’t doing so well and we got a nice new one that has something like 6 print cartridges in it, the machine is a fax machine, scanner, printer, copier — and I can no longer print nice pretty labels off of it as the ink runs when wet and also fades a lot. I have tried every trick given to me and although the last trick – soaking in a cold water-salt solution has helped the most I can still see the ink bleed and the color fades to almost half of what it started at. I think tomorrow after exercise I am going to investigate other printers and see how much a cheap plain printer that takes a different kind of ink is and possibly get one. The one we have now is a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-one anyone else have this printer and the same kind of problems!!
Yesterday’s question: which is the needle of choice for hand quilting? Answer is: betweens
New question: When did Singer introduce the Featherweight Sewing Machine?
A- 1928
B- 1933
C- 1936
D- 1939
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