Reminder and Update
Reminder: If you leave a comment on this blog (or any blog, I imagine), and ask a question, I need to know how to get back to you!
Someone was interested in the fabric bowl class I mentioned in my most recent post and requested details. But she was a No Reply emailer. Here's the info, Gail. Perhaps we'll meet up at the class!
Update: The more I think about the Learning and Growing in Quilting plan, the better I like it.
. . . Since Christmas, I have learned to make binding cut on the bias. This was something I've needed to know for a while. It wasn't difficult at all. I want to learn how to join the ends smoothly instead of the way I've always done it.
. . . I machined said bias binding on the the Triangles quilt and then had to unsew it all because I had just gone ahead and done it without doing my homework. The inside angles were just awful. I spent a long time with our good friend Google and re-machined the binding following one set of instructions I found, and all is well. The hand-stitching is going slowly (intentionally). I expect the Reveal in about a week!
. . . A friend has talked about rounded corners on quilts. She claims the reason she does it is because she doesn't like mitering. I think it is a nice look (for whatever reason). Planning to try this on the Snails baby quilt now that I know how to make the bias binding.
What kind of Learning and Growing are you planning this year?
Comments
Wishing you well.
I love doing bindings of all kinds, and there are two sources I have relied on since I started quilting many years ago. Very early on I bought Mimi Dietrich's book "Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt," and it proved to be a very wise purchase. Everything is in there with clear instructions and illustrations. It is a very valuable resource and although it's out of print, I'm sure you can find one on the Net. And lately, I have been following Sharon Schamber's binding method using glue. Watch her on YouTube; her method of connecting the ends once you've sewn on the binding is perfection. I watch the video every time I do a binding.