This morning I finished binding my first ever quilt. The theme is "dogs"!! It uses fabric from Jessica Swift's "Oh, Woof" collection.
Amazingly I was able to quilt this twin-sized quilt (68x80") on my cheapo Janome machine (cost $225 off Amazon a few years ago). I had to make sure the dogs were all facing in the same direction, LOL.
Thanks for the recommendations on quilting on the diagonal, I decided to do wavy lines in both directions (3" apart) to ensure that the batting was secured.
Note I used a recommendation from this forum to use an ironing board to support the bulk of the quilt on my left while quilting & binding.
I think DH was mortified when I mentioned I started this after getting the fabric & pattern on Black Friday 2024 - so it only took me a month+ to make it.
He keeps saying "what will you do with all these quilts?"...
Off to make my first two blocks of
Aby Dolinger's Optimism BOM 2025 quilt. Help me, I'm hooked!