4 Quilts Bound and sent out today
04-06-2025, 04:24 AM
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4 Quilts Bound and sent out today
Finally I can say I've finished completely 4 quilts this past week. Some were already quilted and just waiting to be bound which I hate doing but finally found an easier way of doing it for me at least. I pull my wool pressing mat to one end of my cutting table so I can keep the weight of the quilt on the table instead of hanging over the side. I glue my binding on first all the way around my quilt, then when I get to the 2 ends, I'll glue them together and stitch them down with my little Brother machine I also keep on the cutting table at one end ready to go. Then stitch it all down, press to the other side and then stitch it down on the other side. I used to stitch it to the front and then hand sew it down on the backside but I no longer can sew with my athritic hands. I now stitch to the backside and then press it to the front stitching it down using the foot with the flange in the center and the needle off to the right of the flange.
Anyway, I was able to get the dinosaur quilt bound and it's packed up to be shipped tomorrow to Wyoming to a little boy named Maverick, 2 oversized lap quilts going today to a father/son team at my congregation and my UFO Ombre bed quilt from 2019 and finally quilted this year after attached to the frame since 2023. I'm so happy I got my mojo back thanks to the little boy named Maverick that got my juices flowing again. Here are the photos all finished. As you'll see on the dinosaur quilt, there were so many scraps leftover I used them to make the quilt wider for his toddler bed, then used more of the scraps for the binding
Anyway, I was able to get the dinosaur quilt bound and it's packed up to be shipped tomorrow to Wyoming to a little boy named Maverick, 2 oversized lap quilts going today to a father/son team at my congregation and my UFO Ombre bed quilt from 2019 and finally quilted this year after attached to the frame since 2023. I'm so happy I got my mojo back thanks to the little boy named Maverick that got my juices flowing again. Here are the photos all finished. As you'll see on the dinosaur quilt, there were so many scraps leftover I used them to make the quilt wider for his toddler bed, then used more of the scraps for the binding
04-06-2025, 10:19 AM
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Oh my! The guys quilts are nice but that flaming star! Wow! What kind of fabrics were used in the Star quilt? My little great grandson would adore the dinosaurs. Great work and glad you got your mojo back. I too have been in a slump before but thank goodness it doesn’t last too long.
04-06-2025, 04:05 PM
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OMG, that dino quilt is beyond adorable! Maverick must be one special lad in your life, with all the piecing you had to do for the dinos! Great way to make a border out of the scraps.
How nice for you to be giving father/son quilts to your friends. Definitely, they are "man" design and coloured. Nicely done.
Hope you are rewarding yourself by keeping the ombre star for just for you!
It's a true beauty.!
How nice for you to be giving father/son quilts to your friends. Definitely, they are "man" design and coloured. Nicely done.
Hope you are rewarding yourself by keeping the ombre star for just for you!
It's a true beauty.!
