Metro Twist Finish

 

Finishing up the binding on Metro Twist. Sewing it down from the front.

It's working out pretty well.

And there it is, all done -- Metro Twist.

I like how the binding looks.

I'm really glad I made this quilt, and I'm grateful to Amy for the lessons on how to use the Quick Curve Ruler.

This is another one to check off of my 2025 UFO Challenges list.

Many Bindings Day

 

Today at Sew Day, I spent my time making binding, lots and lots of binding. For the City Sampler and the Bohemian Wife quilts. Both soon to be going to a long-armer for quilting.

And then the binding for Metro Twist.

I only did the first step of sewing the binding on as I didn't have the matching blue thread to final stitch it down. So close to done with this one.  That was a lot of binding for one day's work, phew, glad it's made.

Green Giving

 

Adding binding to one of the BAMQ community giving quilts. The front and back of this one was made by friend Jaye, not sure who quilted it. The quilting is very nicely done.

First I stitched around the outside of the quilt edge before trimming the excess backing and binding.

Went on pretty easily, now to either hand stitch while watching the 49ers game or maybe machine stitch it with some green thread in the top and bobbin.

X's & O's

 

I hadn't shared a picture of the finished quilt that I worked on for BAMQ Community Giving. I did the quilting and the binding on this lovely design. I really loved these fabric choices and this great quilt design. I hope whoever receives the quilt enjoys it too.

As this is a lap quilt, I did fairly minimal quilting in the white sections, the triangles & squares, as well as the border. I like dense quilting for wall quilts, but not for something that's going to be on or near a body, I think that's just too stiff and not drape able to be pleasant. 

I also did my best at doing a self-border. I will confess that it is not up to competition standards shall we say? So, I hope that's okay, it's sturdy and will hold up to many many machine washings.  The backing fabric I got off the free table is so cute and I thought the yellow of it matched the bits of yellow in the other fabrics well enough.