Chinese New Year
 

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"Chinese New Year" (or "Dragon Quilt") was the first qilt that I stippled. (Stippling is a form of machine quilt that kind of wanders all over the fabric in jigsaw puzzle shapes.) I cut the dragon and the little guys out from a one-yard piece of fabric. It probably took me as long to do that as it did for me to quilt it! On the orange borders, I machine quilted square spirals, reminding me a little of the pagodas dwellings that are so popular in China I also made the orange-pink clouds out of silk.