By the first photo, I'll bet you can tell what I'm doing this morning. Binding. I taught a class to the Oromocto Quilters Guild on Saturday. The class was about free motion quilting on your home sewing machine.. Its a very satisfying class to teach. It wasn't very long before the participants were all just stitching away at various designs.
It was a lovely day with these girls, and while I did a bit of stitching for demonstrations, it wasn't very much. Well, that night, mind kind of stitched all through the night, if you know what I mean.
Yesterday morning, I woke with a plan to scratch my stitching itch, I whipped up an easy and simple table runner out of 4.5 inch batik blocks. It wasn't long before I was doing some simple stitching. After finishing up all the stitching, and squaring up, I prepared the binding. The binding would wait until today. It's one of my favorite parts of doing a project.
I'll use this runner as a sample when I teach my next free motion class. Next Saturday!
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| I'm adding my binding to the back. Then I'll stitch down with my Pfaff Bi-level foot. I love binding with that foot. . |
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| I love the gentle curved effect. This is the orange peel design. Not much marking is needed. Just a dot to note the middle of the square. |
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| This is the overall look of the runner.I chose medium fabrics. I tried to do a random placement of the squares. It is sort of random, but there is a non-obvious pattern. Do you see it? |
1 comment:
I love it Gail. I made a simple Halloween runner with a charm pack but of course, it's not quilted yet. I think I might try that pattern on my runner. I was just looking the other day, at the sample patterns I have from the "Quilting on a Grid" class you taught at Holly's a few years ago! Perfect timing!
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