I was already behind by the time Stacia, Deloise and I did our first check-in. Deloise had her top finished, Stacia had about four seams left to sew, and I had about four seams done. I keep telling myself that I’m not a slow stitcher but they are exceedingly quick. Works for me!

It was no problem coming up with the squares I needed for the top. My new scrap method works well; I had to decide on the colours I would use and then it was just a matter of opening the right bin and pulling out the fabric and doing the cutting. In many cases I already had the right-sized squares cut.

I used flannel rather than batting in the wall hanging and it worked fine. The quilting stitches don’t bury as deeply as they do in batting and in some designs that might be more of an issue. I also think it would be harder to bury the ends in flannel – not as much middle ground so the thread doesn’t show on either the front or the back.

I used a single fold binding using the fold-over technique I’ve tried before. I heard that it was easier to get a good machine binding done if the background, backing and binding fabric were the same; this piece seemed like the perfect time to try it again. I’m still not all that happy with the corners and I had to go around twice because I missed the fold-over on the first round. Had I done that properly from the get-go it would have been a better finish.

I love these small do-it-in-a-day projects!