I can’t believe it – 4 years and 8 months after I started this quilt the quilting is finished. Now on to the binding!! It sure took a lot less time to hand quilt it then it did to piece it!! I will tally up the numbers and do a blog post on it when I get the binding done, wash it and have it presentable for a photo of the finished quilt.
The last corner is quilted
I am going to take my time with putting the binding on as I want to do it well. I have off white fabric left over from the top and I need to start cutting it in bias strips for making binding. My original intention was to do blue binding matching the backing fabric but I don’t have enough for bias strips – I have enough for straight edge but not the bias which the curves really do need. I have the scallops basted in place so tonight I am going to lay it out on the floor and trim the edges. Next week I will start to work on the binding.
Now that the frame is once again empty – a rare sight as I put a new quilt top on the frame usually within days of taking a quilt off as I always have several quilt tops waiting in line – I will sew the backing fabric for the Christmas quilt and get that one on the frame. I’m not sure how I will mark it for quilting so most likely this weekend I will get busy getting the backing ready – see what I have in the basket in the way of batting – the only package that I have unopened is only 60 by 60 but I might just go ahead and baste some pieces to use. I have no place local that sells the Quilters Dream batting that I use (as there is no local quilt shop) and I don’t want to wait to put it on the frame. I have so many pieces here in a large basket that it won’t be that hard to baste it together – I use the sewing machine to do that.
Finally the rain is past us, we have not had rain since 9 this morning. The next 6 days at least are supposed to be sunshine and around 60 degrees at least – I am taking a wait and see approach to that! The weathermen have not been very good on predictions lately. At least we had rain and not snow. One of my many sister’s -in-law lives in Nebraska and they have snow to deal with today-lot’s of it!!
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