Wonderful Weekend

 Any weekend , meeting people 

and sewing, is a great time. 

Attending a virtual retreat makes 

for a very great weekend!

First up, my OMGs (One Monthly Goals)

 are almost complete. Block chain was a 

joy to quilt, thank you Karen

Brown. I used her recommended

cross quilt wave and it worked wonderfully!

Quilting starts at the upper right and 

goes across and down in a big wave.

The back is a failed attempt I had in the 

vault. I tried a jelly roll race with 6" strips. 

It was unsuccessful but with the addition 

of a few side strips it sure makes a great back!

It was going to be a gift but it

sure looks good on our living room couch!

This smaller quilt ( 47" x 57") was enhanced 

with vertical quilting in the 

dramatic colors with finishing

horizontal quilting across the top and bottom. 

I finally attempted my first ever

planned, back to front binding.

 

This is where the binding is wrapped

around to the front.  I had some 

difficulty deciding how much 

batting to trim out and how wide

to make the fold over , but it was a success!

Wonder clips were great for clipping down the 

folded over back and kept me from getting skewered by pins!

Matching thread for top and bottom made the 

stitching almost invisible. I do use the stitch in the

ditch foot for binding top stitching to keep the 

row of stitching nice and straight! 

  I used an 1 1/4" fold of the 

back fabric and 1/2" of batting to 

be folded over with it.  Some of the 

corner batting was trimmed out to 

reduce bulk. I did not manage nice 

mitered corners tho. Next time I 

will trim out more batting there. 

It sure looks nice on the basement railing!

Retreat results:  I never realized 

I has sew much red! ( See what I did there?)

A good portion of the weekend was spent 

sewing up red string blocks.

The weekend ended with 39! of these

lovely string blocks!  They are destined for 

a few rainbow quilts for sure!

Multicolored scraps were used to sew up 

a bunch of wonky log cabins. I had a bit 

of trouble with the wonky. I think I am 

cutting too straight! I did manage to get 

over 40 wonky blocks done but my strip

collection has not diminished much!

It was really a great weekend!  

Stay safe and sew on !!

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