A Finish For February...

A Finish?...Well almost... :)

The binding IS on...

And it has been beautifully

custom longarm-quilted by Chris!

A case of the quilting making the quilt indeed!

(Picture heavy because I wanted to show the gorgeous quilting...)

BUT...

And here's the 'but'...
when I started this quilt in the 1980's

I didn't know what I was doing...

And so I backed each block with batting

and muslin and handquilted it in pearl cotton...

Meaning that when I tried to handquilt it,

it was too heavy going,

The quilt also ended up too large

after I'd joined the four large blocks and put borders on...

Chris kindly helped me unpick my handquilting...
And did a great job of echoing the stars with her custom quilting...

But (and here's that 'but' again!)

she couldn't quilt over my quilting
as it would have been impossible to get a needle through it!!!

So, although it's quilted

AND bound!

It needs some attention to the unquilted bits:

Not much, in my opinion, ahem :)

But enough to fix the 3 layers together

However, a finish is a finish...

Well almost! :)

Thoughts for Tuesday

My work table absolutely groaned under the weight

of this monster quilt.....

Probably not a good idea with a mainly cream quilt...

 A new project...

 Bang, bang, bang....

All photos taken on my phone (hence the quality!)

In Another Bind!

2013 was/is to be the year of finishes!

I have survived a bad case of Noro-virus

(I can only assume that nasty bug was that!)

and I am patiently sewing the scalloped-edge binding down,

but it is SLOW going!!

So onto the next project!!

My oldest quilt, started in the 1980's

using some rather old-fashioned Laura Ashley style fabrics

and my Mother's scraps....

I was desperate to find a dark/forest green fabric

with very small white dots to bind the quilt in.

I thought that would tie the quilt together,

but my search was fruitless, SO.... 

I tried out 3 other completely off the wall options

and I think I'm going to go with option number three:

A mid green with a white vine-like leaf design....

The 4 different star patterns all have the same 

green fabric in them, which has a white flower pattern.

So although not the same colour, (or pattern)

somehow I think this fabric

sort of works :)

I held it against all the blocks...

And it looked ok....

so I talked myself out of a dark green...

And I hope to get it bound soon!!

Then it can sit and wait it's turn after the scallops.

Yes, 2013 will yield at least 2 finishes - or else LOL

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A parting shot of my gorgeous Abyssinian cat.

She's not lazy, her eyelids just can't stay open long :)