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Finish It Up Friday...A Throw For A House!

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I have been using this finish for a few weeks now. When I purchased my house last year I also purchased this quilt kit from Connecting Threads thinking it would fit right in as a throw quilt. I finished the top several months back, may be even last year. It is indeed fun to make projects for yourself:)  I did free motion quilting in each of the stripe/chevrons.  I did back and forth loopy things but tried to NOT make them symmetrical and even. After I did the prints I only did an echo line along the seams in the gray.  As you can see it did a bit of shifting and just looked weird! And so I picked it up again and did the same loopy free motion design in the gray "rows" as well.  Much better! There was a sale I think or I just splurged, can't remember, but I picked out one of the fabric line prints to use for a backing.  So pretty! And now it is used daily on my fabulous couch!  Hurray for a finish! I snuggle down in it as I sit and watch the