Tuesday, April 13, 2021

It was challenging but after a day and a half I finally have my April postcard finished – flower baskets. I’m not happy with the contrast between the background and the baskets but I wasn’t about to spend another day on the project.

The quilting is a very simple straight line cross hatch; I eyeballed it rather than marked it.

By the time I got to the binding I was more than ready to be done so I used my machine to stitch down the binding. It is a technique I’ve wanted to use but I’ve never felt I did a very good job on it. Since this piece isn’t going to win any ribbons it seemed like a good spot to try it.

In hindsight I think a double-fold binding would have been easier to work with, not to mention a space that wasn’t so short from corner to corner.