I’m in the “I love hand stitching the binding down” camp, and that's what I've been doing on this warm Autumn day. This pleasant task signifies the end of the quilt making process, and I must say that I rather like those dinky little binding clips.
Binding time
This quilt top had been finished for a while, and I recently discovered it all rolled up with the already prepared backing and binding. It was constructed similar to Happy Blocks, the piece of delightful frog fabric was cut into squares and framed in different colours. Time to get it out and complete it, I thought. Pinning the layers together was the next step, done outside on the patio table.
All pinned up
Machine quilting was next. In the ditch between the blocks and borders and around the frogs, then finished with serpentine stitch on the diagonal. This took me a couple of weeks to complete, making sure I took plenty of breaks to look after my back.
Machine quilting
There, all done. It looks quite cute and colourful, I think. Someone is sure to love it.
It’s interesting that this little quilt for donation is made up of several pieces of donated fabric. The cute kissy kissy frogs and the lime green border fabrics were in one of our Sew Wots donation fabric piles looking for a new home. I really liked these fabrics so they came home with me. And the spriggy backing fabric came from my elderly neighbour’s stash when she moved out.
20 comments:
Very cute quilt, it will be loved! Happy stitching!
This quilt will make a child very happy! I like hand sewing the binding too.
WOW Jenny, it is lovely, it will make a child smile, and it will be loved. Congrats on a pretty donation quilt. Have a nice week.
I'm with you, I like the hand stitching part of binding too!
I am in the I love hand binding camp. It is the finish of a quilt but best is that it is quiet stitching time. Nice little quilt.
Sew darn cute! I'm in the hand stitching the binding down camp. It is relaxing and you can check out all the fun fabrics in the quilt up close, one last time! Enjoy your stitching.
Congratulations on an adorable finish! Hand stitched binding looks so nice, but I often machine stitch mine more for convenience than anything else.
Cute quilt. I don't mind binding at all.
Your frog quilt is adorable! I love the pretty bright green you used to border the frogs. I'm in the "love to hand-stitch the binding" group - it's always been my favorite slow stitching!
Super cute quilt! I'm afraid I'm in the hate sewing the binding!
What a lovely project!
Your header photo is lovely! Beautiful stitching! I am with you! I love handstitching the binding down, unless it’s a kitchen item/baby quilt (they will get washed often). Yes! I love the binding clips in various colors!
Good for you, taking care of yourself and your back! Your quilt came out lovely and looks super cuddly!
Happy stitching!
Cobbling together lots of pieces is a quilter's delight, making all the colors sing.
I like binding clips too, but don't hand stitch all my bindings, really only the smallest of quilts that I make--too many in the pipeline :)
Very cute! I love that froggy fabric.
Such a fun and happy quilt, Jenny. So great you was able to rescue the fabrics to create this beauty. Have a lovely week.
Great finish. I’ve been away so am catching up on blogs. Being away is fun but the cleanup and unpacking is a pain.
What a wonderful quilt you created from the fabrics from many different places! Enjoy your binding.. it's my favourite also!
Lovely and happy quilt.
Me, well now that I actually have figured out how to bind a quilt properly, I love it. Just wish the hand sewing down did not take forever.
God bless.
I’m usually machine the bindings down for kids quilts and hand quilt ones that don’t get washed as often.
The Frggy Quilt is cute.
I don't mind doing the binding.
Great to see your quilt finished and looking great. Well done.
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