Machine quilting, patching the binding and hand stitching binding.

 After such a great effort day with this baby quilt I was excited to get it finished.

All quilted, now time for the binding.

Some people lose the bobbin race. I lost the binding race by THIS much.

Into the crumb scrap bin.

Sewed some pieces together.

I had to straight stitch them together to get them to fit. 

The way I finish my binding I measure the strip. It fits perfectly.

It doesn’t stand out too much.

All ready to sit and relax to hand stitch down.

Here is the back. It doesn’t look bad.

Linking up with SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY

IT’S FINISHED  32” * 48”

A baby quilt on the way

 Working with scraps. What can I make??

Well I do need a baby quilt for a close friend. They are expecting a new grand baby.

Into my scraps I go. I found a bag of leftover pieces from a previously made baby quilt. Some strips were already joined.

Cut some more pieces, join some more and then trim to the same size.

Add some sashings. I didn’t have enough for complete strips so I added cornerstones. Some even had to be pieced. The cornerstones were only 2” cut. I got there.

Start sewing together. I used the webbing method so I didn’t get the blocks mixed up or turned upside down.

I looked for a backing and wadding. I had a scrap piece of wadding the exact width I needed. I found this pretty green fabric. It too was the exact width but not length. 

That’s okay. I added a strip of white across it.

I’ve had enough for today so I’ll get back to it soon. That was a lot of brain power.

Linking up with Soscrappy.

Chaos mystery flimsy

 Well here are my CHAOS mystery green blocks 

They measure 20” square.

 16 blocks equals 80” * 80”

now in a flimsy 

I don’t think I will be adding borders. I’m going to leave it as is. I’ll bind it in scrappy greens.

There are other layouts you can choose to do.

Thanks to Brenda at Conquering Mount Scrapmore on YouTube. If you click on the link Chaos Mystery quilt you can watch the videos for weekly steps.