Quilting and Binding

 This quilt is one of the biggest, if not the biggest quilt I have ever made.  It is 96" square. It took up almost all the space on the roller bars. I did a freehand baptist fan design and it went fairly quickly.

I quilted it in three sessions - on the second day I had some trouble with thread shredding - so I changed the needle, checked the tension, rethreaded the machine and left it until the next day.  I was able to finish it with out anymore problems.

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I trimmed it and decided to use a red binding.  The shop in Warrenton has the complete line of fossil fern fabrics so I am going to use one of their reds.

Finished sewing the binding on the Bowdacious quilt Monday.  It was cold and windy so it was nice to sit under it and sew. 

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A friend came over for dinner and a movie Sunday afternoon.  We were going to go out to a movie but none of the new ones interested us.  We looked through some here and found The Piano (we had both seen it before - it came out in 1994) - it was on VCR- mixed in with some of the family tapes.  We worked on bindings while we watched it.   Neither of us could remember very much of it  (20 years ago - no wonder) except the finger being chopped off.  Enough said - movie on it's way to goodwill.

December Quilting Time

I took a couple of hours on December 15th after Sit &Sew to load this quilt.  It is the biggest one I have put on this machine.  It is 96 by 96 so it takes up most of the width.  

When I was ready to attach the bottom of the quilt top I discovered that I had pinned the backing to the wrong take up roller.  How very annoying!!!!!

 

 Yesterday afternoon, after Sit & Sew and lunch at Agave (the usual thing we do),  I went straight home and redid the pinning so I could start quilting.

I managed to get four rows quilted too. 

I'm doing a free hand fan design so it goes along pretty good. 

Who knows maybe the quilting will get finished on this one by the end of 2015!

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Undercover Bee Christmas 2015

Lots of great Christmas parties this year and our bee party,as usual, was one of the best.
We had a very nice turnout - lots of good food, fun and friends - very best things!
  And Sylvia's grand daughter was nice enough to come and take our photo too!