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Cheese and Crackers

 Today , I finished machine quilting Mom's quilt top . She got this as a kit from Kelly Ann's Quilting in Warrenton . The pattern's from Atkinson Designs and cute to boot. Cheese and Crackers.  . Mom started cutting before she read all the directions and messed up the first cut . But she made it through it and came out with a really cute lap size quilt . Mom likes to make that first block to "see" what it's going to look like . I know now from her making it , that I would want all the big scale print in the center . Learn as you go , once you make the first one of that design , you really know how to do it the next time . I machine quilted it with a pantograph that Cindy left over here . Buzzin Around 's the name I THINK > :) It was a fun design . I got turned around twice and stitched over some areas coming off the bee's head . You gotta pay attention and not just roll with it . I used King TUT color # 990 green olives for the f