I can't believe it has been so long since my last post! It has been a very busy summer. My husband and I are working on a new blog project together and I was waiting to do my next post to introduce that but it has been delayed slightly. It is going to be very exciting though! I'm looking forward to it. More about that soon. For those of you waiting on the fabric paper dolls pattern that is coming along and will be ready soon as well. (I promise!) Thank you for being patient!
In the meantime, I thought I would catch up on all of the quilting madness I have been up to lately. This was a quilt I started working on before Ronan was born and only finally finished up. I was really stuck on how to bind this quilt. Do I make my own binding or use store made bias binding? How wide? Do I use satin blanket binding or cotton? How the h do you miter a corner?!?!
The quilt was actually very simple because the front is a panel and the back is a solid cotton. It has been so long now, I can't remember the name of the fabric I used for the front, but I'll keep looking and update this post if I find it. This is a quilt of firsts for me because I was able to do some simple machine quilting with just the regular walking foot. I traced the diamonds in the sections with diamond shapes and those without I traced the outer square. It worked well! Forgive all of the fuzz on the photo above. :-p
My first mitered corner!!!!! It took me ages to get up the courage to try this. That might sound totally weird but it is true. Every time I read a tutorial on how to do this I just didn't understand what they were saying. The photos didn't make sense. Finally I found "Posie Gets Cozy" who did a wonderful binding tutorial and it clicked for me. The binding was so much easier than I realized! I machine sewed the front part and hand sewed the back part.
I can't believe it has been so long since my last post! It has been a very busy summer. My husband and I are working on a new blog project together and I was waiting to do my next post to introduce that but it has been delayed slightly. It is going to be very exciting though! I'm looking forward to it. More about that soon. For those of you waiting on the fabric paper dolls pattern that is coming along and will be ready soon as well. (I promise!) Thank you for being patient!
In the meantime, I thought I would catch up on all of the quilting madness I have been up to lately. This was a quilt I started working on before Ronan was born and only finally finished up. I was really stuck on how to bind this quilt. Do I make my own binding or use store made bias binding? How wide? Do I use satin blanket binding or cotton? How the h do you miter a corner?!?!
The quilt was actually very simple because the front is a panel and the back is a solid cotton. It has been so long now, I can't remember the name of the fabric I used for the front, but I'll keep looking and update this post if I find it. This is a quilt of firsts for me because I was able to do some simple machine quilting with just the regular walking foot. I traced the diamonds in the sections with diamond shapes and those without I traced the outer square. It worked well! Forgive all of the fuzz on the photo above. :-p
My first mitered corner!!!!! It took me ages to get up the courage to try this. That might sound totally weird but it is true. Every time I read a tutorial on how to do this I just didn't understand what they were saying. The photos didn't make sense. Finally I found "Posie Gets Cozy" who did a wonderful binding tutorial and it clicked for me. The binding was so much easier than I realized! I machine sewed the front part and hand sewed the back part.
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You did a lovely job, and the quilt came out beautifully!
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