That is the quilt that is now in the National Quilt Museum and the lettering says, “Beauty can often be found in the most unexpected places”. It is called Unexpected Beauty.

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What does it say around the outside border of that quilt?

A series……quick take that back before my brain latches on to the thought! LOL

Well I just fell in love with this backstitch for outlining and was scratching my head as to why I hadn’t thought of it before. See??? you knew something I didn’t.

I use sewing thread on anything that is small in scale. Such as the Egyptian goddess faces on the Pharaoh quilt. Do you ever notice how DMC is too heavy for facial details and they look like hookers when all is done. No disrespect to the hookers of course.

Yes, the bird “fluff” accents could use sewing weight thread as well. If you are used to doing regular embroidery, like I was, it takes a gentle changing of that instinct to instantly think in terms of two strands of floss for most everything.

Your eye will know when floss is too heavy (even with one strand) and then you scale down to a sewing weight thread and all is good again.