I attached the binding to the back and then folded it to the front. The plan being that I would stitch close to the edge of the fold and it would look great and be much quicker than hand sewing. However, it was much harder to sew close to the edge in a straight line. Once again I ended up hiding my dodgy stitching with a decorative pattern!
Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Quilting
I just quilted it using a swirly free motion quilting pattern.
Here is the back …
I’ve just started another version of this quilt, but more of that later.
Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Quilting
Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Quilting
School’s back – both Miss A and Miss P seem happy with their new teachers and classes.
The image above (I don’t want to reveal the whole thing just yet…) is a quilt I’m working on. The fabric is from Materalise – I just bought fat quarter packs.
Can I just say starching the fabric makes everything much easier – the cutting, the sewing and the quilting.
I’ve been doing a bit of blog house keeping, updated the blogroll and changed a few settings (in particular I changed to my local time so it won’t look like I’m posting in the middle of the night!).
Filed under Fabric Stash, Quilting
I’ve cut the fabric for a new quilt.
School holidays continue – another week and a half – and we’re all suffering a bit from a lack of routine. I think it’s important that Miss A and P get bored and need to use their imaginations, but it is a bit wearying.
Filed under Quilting
I’ve made a patchwork card to go with this quilt present. I foundation piece the block (using my embroidery machine) and then attach it to the card using double-sided sticky tape.
You can find the embroidery files on my Machine Embroidery Page.
Filed under Foundation Blocks, Machine Embroidery, Quilting
I’m still hand-sewing the binding to the back. As you can see in the image above, I didn’t attach the binding very well (it’s not an accurate 0.25seam).
School has been back for two days and I thought I would have more time to get things done – but I seem to be achieving less. How does that work?
I like continuous binding, but I always have trouble with the last join. This time I watched a DVD tutorial by Brenda Smith. I watched a bit, did what she did, watched the next bit etc. I achieved perfect results – I didn’t even end up with a pinch in the binding because I put the join in slightly the wrong spot. In fact she made it so clear I’m not sure why I had trouble in the past.
My copy of the DVD came from the latest issue of the Homespun magazine (I know it sounds like I work for this magazine, but I hardly ever buy it. I’ve bought the last two issues for the DVDs).
I’ve still got to hand sew the binding to the back of the quilt, so I shall an image tomorrow of the (hopefully) finished quilt.
I used my acufeed foot to attach the binding, but it was hard to get 0.25 inch seam. I either need to use my patchwork foot or purchase a quarter inch acufeed foot.
Filed under Quilting, Sewing Machine
I’ve cut the binding strips for this quilt. I cut two inch strips (rather than 2.5) because I’m not sure if I have enough fabric.
Yesterday I went and saw West Side Story – it was fantastic. I do like a good musical.
Filed under Quilting
