Just posting some pics of quilting in progress with this sweet little quilt.
This is the backing. It was on sale and if your
not careful and look at it too long, you will
get sea sick. I felt a little woozy while pressing it.
Pin basting is so much fun, I decided to baste this twice,. I got to
the bottom edge and found I needed about three inches more batting.
I know stuff like this happens, but I can't believe it happened
to me on an otherwise perfect sewing day.
Much better!!!
Let me introduce you to my sewing
support team.
Snail (doesn't have a name) reminds me to slow down.
Babe reminds me to keep it neat
and Bud Light Dog sniffs around
for loose threads.
(my studio doubles as a barn)
Thread, bobbins, ready, set, sew!!!!!!!!!!!
I almost forgot, my magic blue sewing slippers. (eat your
heart out Dorothy!)
You can see the pink sticky notes
I pinned to the quilt to remind me
which direction to sew in.
I pretty much ignored them.
I found that I should have put five or ten times
more pins in than I did. I unsewed some, but after a while
I look at everything as an experiment and a
learning experience. Like I tell my friend Debby, when she
wants to rip stuff out from to hell and back, or just cut the binding off
a quilt that is finished and start over
"this won't be your last quilt" and "there's plenty
of fabric where that came from."
The team seems pretty comfortable with how
it all turned out.
I am going to bind this by machine. I usually attach by machine
then hand sew, but I feel like a new learning experience.
I'm off to buy a wide backing while the team takes a
rest. The next quilt on the wall will be the biggest I've
quilted myself. I'm letting myself off the
pieced backing hook so I don't have so many seams to
work with
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