… and I’m quilting. Mostly using a light grey Aurifil thread. I tried to use Sewfine from Superior, it kept on breaking. I did switch to dark purple for the large purple area, but when there was some more of that fabric later, I stuck with the grey.
I decided to do some dot to dot quilting, which meant, marking the dots. I tried to be consistent with the spacing, but to be honest, with this fabric, it’s not the the quilting shows up that well.
Quilted and ready to bind.
I’m proud of my quilting. On a smaller piece like this, it is easy to do, no struggling with a weighty quilt.
While visiting a friend the other day, she showed me some antique quilts – late 19th century. These days we usually bind the quilt with separate fabric, or we make a facing. Another thing that I have done in the past is wrap the backing over the front as binding. What I saw on these antiques was folding the top fabric over the back as binding. So I marked and left an inch unquieted and I folded it over. Also, no miters, just a square corner.
Here’s what it looks like.
The final border is harrower than the pattern. First because I didn’t have enough of the orange fabric. Second, because of that binding. It looks good to me. I’m going to toot my own horn. I am very good at color placement.
I am also really enjoying this garment rack. It won’t work for some of my bigger projects, it’s great for the smaller ones.
I am so happy that I ordered labels from Spoonflower. It’s a pleasure to fill in some info and sew it on the back. Some quilts deserve a lovely hand embroidered label, others don’t.
Here is one way to showcase it on the table. I will probably leave it this way at times.
Here is the other way. Also very nice.
With a few decorative items on top.
This weekend is Rosh Hashanah. Having the family over for dinner, I think I’m leaving this on top of a white table cloth. I haven’t washed it yet, but I will probably have to after that dinner. I want this to be used, not just be pretty. Also, because my son in law is allergic to red wine, I won’t be serving any, which means that white wine doesn’t stain as much.
I am seriously thinking about a larger quilt as tablecloth. You may have noticed that very few corners of my house don’t have something quilted in them. Yeah, that is what happens when one quilts all the time.
Leah