Saturday, January 14, 2017

It took most of the morning to get the binding cut, pieced and attached to the quilt.  Why does it always take longer than you expect? I understand why some of the Guild members get their bindings cut and pieced along with their blocks. I’m seldom sure what size the quilt is going to end up so that doesn’t work for me. I’ll start hand stitching the binding in the evenings, but probably not tonight. I have a knitted toque almost finished and I’d like to get that off the needles first.

I heard that one of the quilt shops in Comox was offering classes for the free-motion templates. I called yesterday but they are specific classes for the Bernini. I could go and I might learn something that I could transfer to my Janome but I decided not to bother. Craftsy was having a buy-one-get-one sale this weekend so I purchased two ruler quilting classes for less than half the cost of taking the ferry across to the Island. They don’t use the same brand of templates, but I know these will help me.

After the binding was attached I headed off to Cranberry Hall. In order to get the insurance quote I needed to take some measurements and get some photos of both the interior and the exterior. I was half-way there when I realized I hadn’t picked up the tape measure. I did my measurements using a foot length; I’ll have to measure the length of my shoe and then calculate the approximate length and width. They would also like to know the height of the building but all they are going to get is that it is one storey; I didn’t have anything long enough to get even an approximate measure.

I spent the afternoon working on some cross stitching. The piece I’m working on was started a long time ago with Dad in mind. If I get it finished before the quilt show I’ll offer it for sale; if not, I have someone in mind that I can give it to.