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Wow! Very pretty.

It's wonderful! I've bought the pattern and I will start stashing my purples or reds or grays once I decide on a color. They say imitation is the purest form of flattery and I want to imitate you. You did a GREAT job and FAST!

I love these bags and yours is beautiful. Your daughter will absolutely love it. I guarantee it. I just bought more fabric on Wednesday to make another one. I'm going to teach a friend how to make one and I figured I might as well make another one at the same time and gift it to another friend.

I can give you my opinion because I have all three. Leader Grips were fine, but I almost immediately upgraded to Red Snappers which I still use. I don't remember why I did that. I usually pin the top of the back and I use the Red Snappers on the bottom of the back. I do this because I have a Liberty with a 20 inch throat and some of my quilts are fairly big. If I use Red Snappers sometimes the tube gets in a position just right to take up ½ inch or so of my throat space and I have trouble getting the needle to the other edge if I'm using my CL boards. I hope that makes sense, anyway, I float my tops. I had (and still have) several sets of zippers and hated them from day one. It was way more work than pinning or using the Red Snappers. The zippers are nice if you have to remove the quilt in the middle of quilting it in order to put another quilt on. I don't sew for others so that was never an issue.

I love mine too.

Looks wonderful.

Thank you Dawn. I have a Liberty, but so much of this information is pertinent and extremely useful to me. I'm going to adjust my table height now...yay!

Can you 're-iron" and pull it off while it's hot? Try ironing another piece of fabric on to it and use it to pull off the residue. I would go very slow and easy or you might have a bigger mess. Good luck. Let us know what ensues.

Quilt them...then love and enjoy them. The only reason quilts used to be hand-quilted was because no one owned a long-arm!

It is really cute.

These are both beautiful quilts and the quilting is wonderful. I saved them both for inspiration. I understand about the 5 grandbabies in 5 years. That happened to me too. I thought it was wonderful...I kept saying "yay...I get a new model every year". There was 6 of them. Then they all started graduating from high school and heading off to college. Every year I have one graduating from high school and another heading off to college. Now they've started graduating from high school and another from college at the same time. This cycle is going to continue for quite some time. It's not just the expense of trying to help out, but think of the traveling it entails since they all live in different states and trying to be at all the graduations. Thank God the last three have a couple of years between them. I wouldn't change any of this because it has been lovely. You're going to have a grand adventure.♥

It's beautiful...so much quilting on it.