Ann's Gift Quilt

       One of my best friends has taken up quilting with some assistance from me. She is an accomplished home dec seamstress (I am not). She asked me if I would quilt this quilt which is a present for her son and daughter in law. I do not usually quilt anyone else's work as it is too nervewracking. I did this for her, although it was queen size and double sided. Most of the quilts I longarm are about 60 x 80 finished.
      We went over designs and sketched out ideas. The hard thing is she made a second quilt top for the back. While the idea is lovely, you can never center a back top so it coincides with the front one. I told her to add a lot of white fabric at the sides. The designs are not going to match up. Ok, she got that finally. I did not have any trouble quilting over seams. The front top did not lay flat enough, so that was always a struggle. Her batting had a hunk cut out and I had to remedy that on the long arm because I did not see it when loading. I used fusible knit interfacing strips, ironing it on while on the longarm. I trimmed it, but she bound it. They are getting it for Christmas while they will be here from Perth, Australia.

The Front

The Back