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.

Basting Done

It was snowing and blowing today, guild meeting was cancelled so I stayed in the house and got the Presidents Quilt basted. It took most of the day and I ran out of pins. Was not going out in this weather to buy more, so I finished the last fourth of the basting with thread. I saw a video of Sharon Schamber thread basting for machine quilting so I'll see how it works for me. The key is to take out the thread as you come to it while quilting.

Borders

The borders are all on the President's Quilt. This is my first attempt at using a border stripe fabric and making mitered corners.I used the tape method and am happy with the way it turned out. Now on to basting.

Stars Quilt Done!!

Here it is, all done! Finished stitching the binding down and put on the label last night. Ready to enter into QuiltFest 2010.

Alyssa's Quilt progress

No school on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Alyssa and I ate lunch at Panera, and then worked on her quilt at my house. We sewed on machines side by side, she was on the Elna and I on the Bernina.
This is a picture of it on the design wall, the rows are almost all together.

Quilting is finished!

 

 

 

Free motion meandering in first border with white thread, using golden paper to do a cable with the variegated thread in the second border, and the binding is being hand stitched. The end is in sight!