Hello everyone,
What would motivate your sewjo in order to complete a forgotten UFOs or In Progress project? there is many ways this can be done, by challenging yourself into taking only a few that your REALLY want done this year and work on it at least 30 minutes a day. It's amazing how much sewing can be done in a short session.
Good Habits
In order to get back into a good quilting habit, I choose two simple designs I was familiar with and quilting a section everyday. It was fun to get back into business and because I hadn't free-motion for many months, my shoulders were tense and my hands position went to far up the plate. This was a good idea to restart with a smaller quilt, so I put my whole body into good habits.
FRONT: It's sad that you cannot see much of the quilting. I may have to retake this picture on a sunnier day
For the back, I used what was left from the scraps (color strips). Also used some of the dotted fabrics.
Flange Binding
This was my first attempt at sewing a 'flange binding'. Okay for those of you who don't know about the part of a quilt, it's the edges. That very thin edge at the outer far part of the quilt. A "flange binding" it made of TWO pieces of different fabrics, instead of one. Then the binding was sewed from the back first, turned to the front and stitched. A quilt like this one takes me about 3-4 hrs of hand stitching. Now it took me about 1 hr. including the preparation for the flange binding.
You can barely see the wavy lines and circles, but that was intended because I rather see the quilt-design, not the quilting design.
💙 Let's Go Quilt to His glory!
"He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coast lands wait for this law." Isaiah 42:4
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