Mandy,
Your DWR is awesome. I have one for my DIL that I've had the binding sitting here gathering dust for a few months. You've given me a good idea. Thanks!!
eileenkny

Mandy
Your quilt is beautifull

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Mandy, beautiful quilt!

Mandy your DWR is soooo wonderful The colors are so bright and happy. I love the way you included the pictures and text. You're SIL is one lucky lady!
Mary

Mandy, your DWR quilt is beautiful! I hope your SIL appreciates all your hard work. WandaM

I finally finished and have posted the DWR quilt I made my SIL using the faced binding. I have to say it was one of the easiest and pain free bindings I have ever done, and that is a lot considering the edge on this quilt was the most complicated one I have ever done as well. It is hard to see in the photo but the edge has points sticking out between the curved edges of the rings making LOTS of little corners to work around.

I told you all a while back I would let you know how it went. Here is what I did. First I sewed a scant 1/4" from the edge all around the quilt as I quilted it - this served as a sewing guide in sewing on the binding. I DID NOT cut away my excess backing and batting yet - I always leave that till the binding is sewn on one side to help stablize. Next I precut 6" wide strips matching my backing material. Then I layed these right sides together on the front of the quilt and pinned it well to make sure it did not shift. At the corners of the quilt I treated the strips like I was doing a mitered border and sewed them together using a Y seam. Next I flipped the quilt over and sewed using that 1/4" row of stitching as a guide and staying just inside it. Once I was done sewing it down, I carefully cut away the excess, trimming the seam to about 3/8" to 1/2", clipping inside corners and cutting off tips of outside corners. Then I turned the binding to the back and turned out all the points using my scissors (carefully!!!) to push the points out sharp. After that I pressed the edge well and on the back of the quilt I used a blind applique stitch to tack it down just like any other binding.

It sounds far more complicated than it really was. It worked out so well it is almost scary.

Mandy

It's called Discount Sewing Center, Jackie Lynn's and it's in Irondequoit, which is the northern most subburb of Rochester, NY. It's a nice shop with great teachers, quilting fabrics and notions but also some of the other fabrics, patterns and notions that a regular sewing store carries. She has 3 HQ 16's in a back room and does classes on them as well as renting them out for $15/hr. They show you and help you pin everything on and take care of the bobbins and any thread breaking or problems. I'm thrilled that I can finish my quilts myself and don't have to invest in a machine myself! Nancy- gorgeous day here finally!

Nancy,
What shop do you rent your longarm time in? Or do you know a longarmer who rents time on her machine?
eileenkny

I've been doing really well lately with finishing UFO's or WIP's. I did 3 quilts on a long-arm machine myself that I rented time on.

Now I realized that it's April and I have 2 high school graduations and a baby shower, all in June! Yikes!

Good thing I have a retreat this weekend. I've got a batik and a flannel Turning Twenty already cut out and ready to sew. The pieces are large, so hopefully I'll get them both pieced. Then back to the long-arm! I may also have a chance to start the baby quilt. I've got the Pooh fabrics all washed and a pattern in mind...

Ann,
Do you ever cruise the east coast when you're RVing?
eileenkny

all seven of the small projects thaI said I needed for swaps etc. are done and ready to be mailed and I got the first set of stitching on my challenge project. Now it needs machine embellishments, quilting and some hand work embellishments but since is only about 30" x40" that is a doable project for the next few days. Now if I can just keep dh from taking all of my sewing things to the motorhome before I finish the machine embellishments I will be able to finish by the deadline in April.

Unfortunately in cleaning up the sewing room so that everything not traveling with us is put away, I found five or six more ufo's but they are not anything that "has "to be done, So they are staying here and hopefully the quilting fairies will come and finish them but I propably have a better chance to become the US president than I have of finding any quilting fairies to clean up after me. so it is all up to Ann but some things simplly can wait.

so back to packing and doing the last minute sewing Ann aka snowplow who doesn't plan on going far enough north to find snow.

Ann, where will you be traveling too?
You have an exhausting but doable list of quilts. It feels really good to start crossing them off the list.

Ann, your list looks worse then mine, I can not even think on making mine. When does the Summer travel start?

Margarita in Auburn, CA

GOOD GRIEF, ANN! :shock:
You wear me out!! That list is enough to put us all to shame!! And, knowing you, it will get done somehow!

Have a safe trip!