Houses Quilt Finished!
Finished! Here’s the Houses quilt I’ve been making for my aunt in bits and pieces for the last month or so. It’s always satisfying to get a quilt done, especially since I’m also rearranging my sewing room at the same time and everything else I’ve been working on is in a state of total upheaval.
In the interest of time, and also because this quilt is pretty large to handle on my home sewing machine, I did the final quilting in a minimalist way. First, I stitched in the ditch along most, but not all, of the seams in the quilt. Then I chose a stylized leaf stitch from the assortment of decorative stitches on my sewing machine and sewed it around the center of the outer border. And that’s it!
For the binding, I picked the second fabric from the left, which I dug up out of my fabric stash.
I like the cheeriness of striped binding, so I cut the fabric along the length of grain (parallel to the selvages) to highlight the stripes in it. After I made the binding strips, I sewed the binding on using a machine-sewing-only technique (see tutorial here), and finished it with one of my favorite decorative stitches. In this photo, you can also see the leaf decorative stitch I sewed onto the outer border.
And here’s the quilt folded up and ready to go in the shipping box. Finis!
What a beautiful quilt! I enjoy reading your entries. I find them inspiring and very informational.
Thank you! It’s very satisfying to know that I can help other quilters.
Oh I just love this crisp blue and white. Your houses are immaculate and I love the decorative stitches you chose for the binding. Beautiful.
I love blue and white too, Jocelyn. My grandmother had blue-and-white Willow pattern doll china for her grandchildren to play with. It is such a happy color combination.
Oh!! I just love it!!! She is going to love it too!! I liked the stripe the best too.
On to the next masterpiece…..
Thanks, Theresa! I’m working on quilts for my next book — announcement coming soon.