Friday, January 13, 2017

I didn’t think it would take long to finish the ruler quilting today, and I was right. The Cranberry Hall’s President was coming over at eleven for a quick meeting about the insurance for the Hall. I was almost finished by the time he got here, and had all the ruler work done by lunch.

The afternoon didn’t go as quickly. First, I had to deal with the back of the quilt. Using the scissor option on my machine leaves about a half inch length of thread on the back and each one of them had to be snipped off. Then I had to deal with the clumps of thread that got caught in the quilting. I managed to clear them up enough that I’m not ashamed of my work and, if necessary, I’ll cover the worst of them with a felt marker (around the Guild they suggest we should use a gel pen). Even when all that was done I felt like the quilt was still lacking something.

I used a scallop-looking stitch along both sides of the sashing and all the way around the outer edge. It was just good luck that the start and the finish of the scallop on the edge more or less joined up! There is quite an investment in thread on this quilt.

Tomorrow I will trim the quilt, cut the binding and attach it to the quilt. I’m not sure if I’ll sit and hand stitch the binding right away – I feel like the quilt and I need a break!