Close up on the quilting
It was down to the crunch but I’m happy to say that the Pineapple Blossom wedding quilt is folded neatly away and tucked in my luggage ready for late night hotel room binding sessions. With any luck I’ll be able to complete the binding before returning home on Sunday, but if not I’m quite sure I’ll at least get a good start on the almost 400 inches of hand stitching.
Backing fabric!
I thought you might like to see a shot of the wild backing fabric I ordered online from Sew Sisters in Ontario. It’s a Kaffe Fassett wide back, which was lovely not having to piece a backing for once, but it has a very slippery texture almost like a cotton sateen and it was giving me all sorts of tension issues on the longarm. At first I was truly discouraged but decided to persevere, taking my time with adjustments and trials until I reached a nice ‘middle road’ tension. A fact that probably didn’t help the whole matter was that I was using a different colour thread for the top stitching than what was in the bobbin, which shows every sin that you make in quilting, of course. In the end, I love the texture of the quilting and the wild back is a wonderful surprise.
Happy Spring Daffys!
In this photo you can see a bit of the border fabric that I chose but the best part is the great black and yellow ‘pedestrian’ stripe that I used for the binding. What a lucky find! I hope it doesn’t make me dizzy while I’m stitching it on :o)
This will more than likely be the final post this month but I promise to take a proper full quilt photo of this one when it’s finally finished. I hope that by the time I get back home next Monday, the weather will be pleasant enough to do a clothesline photograph, as this one is too large to hang anywhere else. I will be taking my camera to Red Deer so expect a variety of travel/quilt/ process pictures coming up, as I’m started a brand new project that I want to share. Tammy and I will be exchanging our mini quilts that we’ve been secretly working on this past winter which amounts to even more photos. And last but not least, I’ve already selected my P.H.D. (project half done) for the month of April and managed to get the blocks up on the design wall in the studio, but more on that when I return next week. In the meantime, happy spring stitching! I am now officially on retreat!!!
as always, carol
Great to see that you had good intentions about binding! But you did accomplish a lot over the weekend. Thinking of you, bubby! xoxo