Binding

Got the binding made and stitched onto the quilt on Monday, took it to Guild meeting Mon. evening for "show and tell," and started the hand stitching.

Quilting Done!

Finished the quilting on Sunday. I "fluffed and stuffed" the quilt into my machine;
stitched in the ditch in the name blocks, and did a continuous line design with Golden Threads paper in the muslin spaces between them - ran out of paper 3/4 of the way through and then marked with the stencil and blue marker. It took time and patience,(this quilt is big-84" x 101") but was fun with the BSR. On days when I had the gift of being able to stay home, I let the cold winds blow, the snow fall and stitched away during the day and buried threads at night while watching the Olympics.
Found out that thread basting doesn't work on a big quilt, the threads kept getting caught on pins, table corners, etc.; so I bought more pins and took out the thread.