Thursday, January 27, 2022
Next step for the chevron quilt
Thank you for all the lovely comments on the chevron quilt tutorials and the finished quilts. We are not done yet! I will have other scrap quilts to make with the leftovers from those four green quilt and I need to quilt and bind this blue one. I will be doing a tutorial on how I bind my quilt. I know if you are a long time quiltmaker, you have already perfected your method of binding, but I never know who might be reading this so I want to post all the information needed to have a completed project. After work I got the blue chevron pin basted.
There was some extra length of back fabric so I cut that off and was able to get two strips out of it for binding.
I decided I might as well go thru the other leftover scraps and see what I could use for binding. I came up with enough pieces. I got them all cut to size - 3" wide - sewed them together, pressed them, and now my binding is ready! I didn't think to take pictures of how to sew the binding together - geeze!
I also wound bobbins so now I am ready to machine quilt this latest blue chevron quilt. I didn't have any blue thread that would work so I just went with white.
Here is my weekly posting on the current cross stitch project. Here is where I was on the 20th and where I am now.
I sure was cold this morning. I stopped for gas because I was just a bit below a half tank. Always good to be topped off in this kind of weather! Here is what my car said the temperature was when I pulled in the parking lot at work. The temperature bounced around from 2 degrees to minus 11. It was cold standing and filling the car!
I am very much enjoying your tutorials. Your instructions are very well presented and clear. I will be giving your technique a try as soon as I get through making the goat quilt! Can't wait to see more.
ReplyDeleteBrrr! Yes, it was definitely cold today. I topped off last night as I like it to be full this time of year as well. You made great progress on your cross stitch since the 20th. It's beautiful as always.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see how you do your binding. I bet we do it the same, but you never know. Happy quilting. Stay warm!
Ack! -11! I'd have a total panic over that. Heck, I panic at 20.
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