long-arm quilting service<\/a>\u00a0by mail in future. I really like piecing the quilt top, quite enjoy the finishing with the binding, but the quilting on a small machine – well, I could happily pay someone to do that part for me!<\/p>\nI do love how it looks through once all the quilting is finished. \u00a0It suddenly comes to life, feels soft and snuggly.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript><\/p>\nFinishing the quilt<\/strong><\/p>\nThe home stretch and its a quick finish. \u00a0I enjoy the trimming and binding part. Off come all those rough and messy edges, all the threads get trimmed away and the binding completes the pretty picture.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript><\/p>\nI've done quite a lot of edge binding on various projects now, but I still get nervous about it and often will hand stitch the second side to make sure everything is neatly caught. \u00a0I hate it when I set up everything and pin and then when I stitch from the front, I turn over and a little bit of the binding has been missed in one of two places. \u00a0Arrrghhh.<\/p>\n
I didn't want that to happen here so I ‘cheated'. \u00a0I sewed on the front in the regular way, then I pressed the binding and folded it over to the back, held it in place with pins in the ditch from the front to make sure the stitching line was covered on the back and then used my serpentine stitch again from the front to make sure it was all caught. \u00a0Phew – easy and no missed binding. I don't think it looks too out of place as it follows the same quilting pattern I used.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript><\/p>\nWhat do you think? \u00a0Have I carried out a quilting sin? \u00a0Will I never be allowed to quilt again, or hold my head up high in a fabric store? \u00a0Bah – who cares!<\/p>\n
A delicate wash and the quilt is ready. \u00a0I'm so happy with it – love the colors, the fabrics and the feel and it really has the part vintage \/ part modern look I wanted. \u00a0So soft, so snuggly and destined to be always covered in cats, where ever I put it. \u00a0This one is going to stay with me, live on my bed and make me very happy \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
<\/noscript><\/p>\nIf you would like to give a beginner quilting project a try, check out the Cherie Jubilee quilt kit from Forth Worth Fabric Studio<\/a>, or indeed any of their other amazing quilting kits and fabrics they have on offer.<\/p>\n <\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I did it. And I love it. My second ever quilt is finished. My first one was just a jelly roll strips quilt, but this one was following a proper (beginner) quilting pattern, and I made proper blocks and sashing and I suppose you could say it’s my first ‘real’ \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[87,70,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73573,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions\/73573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}