These are leftover blocks and other scraps I had around. I used Board Member K3n's tutorial on how to put them together with no hand sewing. That is why there are the sashings on the back. I used Elmer's Washable School Glue instead of the steam a seam, but she suggested that in the tutorial too. After I did that, I decided to put borders on, so there was another technique I found where you sew the two borders on and then butt the batting up against the seam line and zig zag. And then quilt the borders. That turned out to be easy and really and truly, there is no extra bulk in the seam, because it is butted up and not overlapped. Any zig zag will do. I used scraps, three different kinds of cotton batting, warm and natural, warm and white, and then some other kind I had here which I guess I had washed because it felt different. I used that on the borders. But, once it was put together it all feels the same.
I still need practice on the free motion motifs in the green squares. Not so great moving around marked lines. The meandering in the borders went very well. I'm comfortable with that. I sewed the binding to the back and then machine stitched on the front with my electric vintage 66. No walking foot. I just loosened the presser foot pressure and didn't need it. I also need practice in lining up the sashings on the back so that the stitch lines are kind of equal. As it is, some of them are narrower than others, although they are fine on the front.
I had an interesting time with these techniques. And now I have yet another batch of scraps to deal with. Scraps do have a tendency to multiply, don't they?
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