Ze quilt -- she is almost finished -- but, she is not. She sits and waits, forlorn for me to do the one last piece of binding on the side....and I do not. [note- all of that should have been read in an overblown french accent]
I'm going to have to do it soon, as I hand it over on Saturday, but its really only about a half an hour of hand stitching - I just need to find the time. I'm happy with how it came together (and more than a little pleased with myself for getting all the seams the line up properly) (I believed 'chuffed' is the word I've been seeing on the UK blogs) Anyhow, while the green parts were bought specifically for the project (yes, yes, fabric-fast, but I gave myself a pass on this one as it wasn't for me nor was the material purely to satisfy my undying lust for fabric.) However the white part of the backing and the batting (really a bit of polar fleece) were both from my stash, so I've decided to count this as item 5/15 on my stash-busting countdown. The really handy thing about using polar fleece as batting is that you don't have to quilt as densely as it will not fall apart. I ended up stitching in the ditch around the seven full 9-patches and sewing on the binding through all three layers -- and that was it. (insert evil laugh here)
I didn't have enough of any one color of green to do edging or binding, so I pieced them together and ended up with a nice hodge-podge that worked well with the front of the quilt. All in all I am pleased and am holding myself back from making more. As content as I am right now, if I were to start to cut out all the bits to make a big one, I would be grumbling inside of mere minutes.
To anyone celebrating, happy thanksgiving! to anyone not, happy thursday!
It's so pretty! I love all of the shades of green put together!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I read the first part in the French accent and finished with a hand to the forehead. Tres dramatic!