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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
rainy day binding...
It's a rainy day in Georgia...not so good for washing quilt-tops from the auction (this one is now drying in the kitchen) but great for putting binding on quilts (particularly when the quilt has been quilted for almost 6 months!)
This is my Penisve Quilt - made with buckets of 1-1/2 inch strips. Amazingly those "buckets" are still full...I've had the binding ready to go for months so it will be nice to get it off of my to-do list! I try and make binding for a quilt as I work on the top. I wind it on a cardboard tube left over from paper-towels and keep it with the top. Though I have been known to either change my mind or just used the "wrong" binding for the wrong quilt but I'll never tell which ones it happened to!
It is a good memory quilt of all the fabrics I've used in the past 15 or so years. About the only thing I didn't put in it was Christmas fabrics...
I think Dobby has the right idea...before I do the hand turning on the binding I may take a nap too....
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9 comments:
Your old quilt tops are just SO inspiring! Your new string quilt looks great too. Hope we'll get to see more of it!
Kitty has the right idea, a nap on a rainy afternoon. Like you scrap strip quilt-----be sure and take a full picture when the binding is on.
A rainy day, a comfy quilt, a snuggly kitty... nap time sounds perfect to me!
:)
They are beautiful!! Great job!!
They are beautiful!! Great job!!
They are beautiful!! Great job!!
Love the auction quilt and your pensive is beautiful. What a great idea to make a memory quilt (ahh, is that why its called pensive?)!! Love your binding idea too. xo
Rainy day = NAP! Saw your comment on Dutch Quilt Cat - Joes was actually in the shop I work at last summer. She was on her way to the Gwen Marston retreat!!!
Sounds like you are having the same weather as us :-) rainy weather = good sewing days !
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