Mid Month Chookshed Challenge

 It's mid March and time to write about my progress on Chookshed Challenge No 4.  For number 4 I decided to work on a panel, as are several others taking part in the challenge.  I had a couple of panels hiding in a bag, and decided to do something with my horse panel.  Which has been sitting there waiting for the horses to be liberated for quite some time.

Opening the panel up, I remembered that it had four large horse panels, plus two more strips showing multiple horses on each side.  These smaller strips were cut off and added to the top and bottom.  I then added a strip of dark green to the top and bottom to give it a little more length  and some cream/brown dotty fabric for the borders.  No fancy pieced blocks anywhere, the idea was to keep this project simple, and achievable.

The top is done

The next step was to pin the layers together, always a bit of a challenge in my small home with not much clear floor space.  What I do is lay it on the floor between the sitting room and kitchen, put a few safely pins in to hold it together.  Then I carefully pick it all up, and lay it over the outdoor glass table in the patio.  There I can finish the pinning sitting down, without putting too much strain on my back.

Pinning the quilt layers together

The quilt binding has  been prepared, always a bonus in my book, and I have just started the machine quilting, so it's coming together quite well.  I'm looking forward to seeing what other panels have been worked on this month by fellow Chookshed Challengers.  I appreciate the organisors of the challenge for keeping us all motivated.