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Friday Finish

This was finished the Long and Rocky Road a couple days ago, it's just now getting this all written down. As I had mention before I had started this quilt 22 years ago with many long breaks between working on it. I paper pieced the blocks from scrap fabric left over from my sewing clothing days. Some of the fabric is older than that, up to 40 years old.  And being that it's fabric used for clothing it's not all 100% cotton. It worked out just fine. Ended up being 64 1/2 x 86 1/2 Now I very rarely even piece my backs but this was when I had very stash and leftover blocks I could use. In a way it's like having 2 quilts in one. I tried to center it up to match the front as far as aliening up with the star. Was pretty close, maybe a quarter inch off.  I tried something new at the time for me was colored thread and varied my stitch size. Insides the stars I made my stitches like I have on all my oth