In my last post, I shared a photo of the current quilt on Mo'e ( my mid arm machine for those who don't know)...
I finished quilting it on Thursday and stitched the hanger/sleeve and label on and then machine stitched the binding to the front of the quilt... something I very rarely do, but this time I had to since there was only a quarter inch between the bottom of the letters and the edge of the quilt; if I had done it my usual way, the binding would have covered up too much of the letters when it was stitched to the front of the quilt. This way, I lost just a sliver of one or two letters.
That was my task at the sew in today... to hand stitch the binding to the back of the quilt.... here it is laying in our yard after I got home from the sew in. Another one that was fun to quilt.
If you go to my previous blog post, you'll find the info for the quilt.
Next up on Mo'e will be Amish with a twist II.... I just need to wait for my latest order from QuiltedJoy to arrive. When I ordered the wide backing fabric for this top, I 'guesstimated' how much I'd need... and it was wrong. I need a minimum of 97" x 97" - and that's just enough to fit the quilt top... I need more for sides, top and bottom. I ordered 2 1/2 yd of 108" wide... which means 90"... I'm 7" short... so I ordered another half yard along with some of the brighter colors of thread and then an extra 'cup' of bobbins.... which should be here by Tuesday - which is ok... it gives me time to figure out how I'm going to quilt it... I have some ideas, but need more. I'll be watching more youtube videos and looking through quilt pattern books that I have here.
And now, I need to go find something for hubby's dinner... I'm still full from that huge lunch I had earlier today so I'm not hungry, but he needs to eat.
take care.....
ttyl...........
oh! I also worked on more birds and flowers for my scrappy quilt - but haven't taken pics lately... will try to do that maybe tomorrow or Monday.
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