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I FINISHED AUGUST'S project! I learned a lot doing this quilt.

• How to stabilize a quilt so it can go in and out the frame easily.
• How to digitize a drawing using my new program; Pro-Q designer.
• How to do add a spiral to my feather.
• How to do the 'formal feathers' instead of the informal feather's I've been doing.
• My 'line dancing' got better.
• I did some 'design with lines' in a couple of blocks.
• I learned that I could use Isacord thread; I'd tried it before unsuccessfully (I had the machine threaded wrong.)
• I recognized the sound the machine makes when it needs oil.
• I repaired the in-coder so my machine would work....oh yeah, Jeffrey, Roger and Mike at ABM helped.
• I tried a different binding; it's sewn in the ditch by machine in front; with the back prepared with school glue to hold it so it will be attached when sewing from the front. The fabric was a bit wimpy; I will try it again with either heavily starched fabric and/or lengthwise grain cut binding.
• I learned to rip more efficiently. ;)

I like the quilting on this block the best.

I finished at 11:25 p.m. on the last day of the month!

edit; This was started the year before Melissa go married, 2001?