Ferrero Rocher time again

Yep!  I finished another quilt today.. infact, I quilted it, put binding and label on today.  And look how close my binding came...

Normally I use a 2.5" width for binding, but I've come to realize that it leaves more on the front of the quilt than I'd like.  For those who don't me and my habits... I stitch my binding to the back first, then bring it to the front of the quilt and machine stitch it down; one or two sides of the label is usually all the hand stitching I do - and it's not because I don't like hand stitching because I do - but I get impatient and want it done NOW and so my stitches get bigger and further apart and I end up with "toe catchers".

Anyway, back to the above binding... this time I cut the binding at 2.4" ... which has absolutely nothing - well, not a lot anyway - with the overlap at the beginning/end.  I join the ends on the diagonal so I needed for the right piece (shown above) to overlap the left piece by 2.4"...  this is what I had left...

The tiny red line that you might be able to see is where I marked the 2.4" but I've learned that if you cut a couple of threads inside that line, the binding fits a little better.

Ok, enough of that.... I don't have the pic of the front of yesterday's quilt finish... all of the blue chalk did NOT come out, but you really have to look to see it ( or at least I do) and I'm not going to worry about it.  Anyway, I wanted to wait until this evening to take the pics so that I could get a pic of the one I was planning on finishing today.  Well, wouldn't you know it rained late this afternoon and the grass is wet.  Tomorrow, if it's still wet, I'll get hubby to stand out on the porch and hold the quilts while I take pics of them.

Hehe  I just realized that I haven't taken a pic of the front of today's quilt so you have no idea which one I'm talking about... guess you'll have to come back tomorrow night or Friday morning to see.  Oooo isn't the suspense wonderful?  haha 

So, after finishing today's quilt, I loaded another one right onto Mo'e... he's not too happy about it either... he's stalling here and there - a rest tonight will do him good and in the morning I'll check to make sure there aren't any wayward threads again.  Oh yeah, I forgot to show you what I found under the front wheels the other day - in case you missed it - here's the pic.  I couldn't figure out why he was giving me such a hard time in one particular spot... I looked underneath and this is what I found. 

I was sure I had gotten it all... I looked very carefully and ran the machine back and forth along the rails and it seemed fine.   A few days later, it started acting up again... and this is what I found the second time.

 Obviously, I'm not being very diligent about checking for threads hanging loose underneath the quilt.

Anyway... here's what's on Mo'e now....  I'll give you just a peek ....

It looks a little wadded up right now - because part of it is.  I float my batting and top which means they sometimes touch the floor - even puddle on the floor.  Well, one of our cats has decided that it makes a good bed so when I am done each night, I pull up whatever is floating and loosely heap it up onto the part of the quilt that I was in the process of quilting.

Ok, it's early but Buddy thinks he hears thunder somewhere within a 100 mile radius and he's sticking to me like glue... if I go to bed, he'll either snuggle up close to me or he'll dive under my bed not to be seen again until the coast is clear or it's morning and he HAS to go outside.

take care

ttyl