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I finished all the hand quilting on the patchwork runner, so my last task before binding it was to embroider the words Lake House on the center panel. I chose this text because it's the title of my favorite movie (I like both the English and Korean versions, too), and it suited the original maker's composition.

I took my printout of the text and used a knife to cut the letters to serve as a tracing template. I do this on card stock when I plan to reuse the template, but since this was a one-time-only deal I just used the bond paper printout.

For the embroidery I picked a size 5 perle cotton variegated thread with green, blue and brown colors that went best with the patchwork, and then got out my disappearing ink marker to trace the lettering. Since bond paper is flimsy I pinned the template to the quilt and went very slowly with the marker.

Once I had my words traced I started to back-stitch the letters.

It came out better than I expected, so I'm happy. Now I just have to bind it and it'll be finished.

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