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| A mad dash between rain storms to get a picture. |
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| Finally and folded. This quilt has been hanging around for a couple weeks waiting for a showing. |
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Just a quick review. This quilt is entirely made from left over charm squares, jelly roll strips and bits and pieces from other projects over the last year or so. Totally random placement, simple row after row construction. It measures about 72 inches square-ish.
Even the binding is made from scraps of scraps! Yards of it. All pieced together, trimmed and edges serged because there are so many pieces I was afraid the whole darn thing would separate.
I suspect some of the binding edges will look familiar from other projects.
After a trim and square up I use the serger to final trim and clean finish the edge with a three or four thread overlock. This is 4 because that is how the machine was set up at the time.
Just a little trimming. I still cannot understand why this machine does not have a catcher basket for trimmings. I have to do something about that. That is a big design fail IMO.
The advantage to this method is 1. clean finish the edge. 2. if you have a quilt edge with multiple seams and no border, it secures that edge and prevents seam separation. 3. it provides a nice base for applying the binding nice and flat.
Next I use the apply the binding to the back of the quilt, roll to the front, apply the Elmer's School Glue to secure the binding, press until dry, secure with clips, decorative stitch on the front.
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| As I stitch I drop the clips into a magnetic bowl that I store in the top drawer of the scrap saver cart right next to the machine. |
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Stitching binding to the front, by machine, decorative stitch 6-125. (Destiny)
This little serpentine stitch was interesting but not my best effort. I won't use it again and if I hadn't finished it so quickly I would have taken it out but it is a camp quilt, picnic tables, fireside sits, etc.
- Why spend time on a scrap quilt? Why not. No great pressure, fabric is expensive and I choose not to waste and you never know how it will turn out.
- It is an excellent opportunity to test quilting patterns for me. As a result of this quilt I have amended some of my processes. I'll share that and some other aspects at another time.
- Sometimes you just need to get out of your lane and do something different.
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