a smidge of show and tell

Thanks for all of your encouragement :-)

Quilters are just the nicest people!

So.

I sewed when I got home Wednesday evening,

and when I could yesterday,

and by 7:11 last night,

I had a finished quilt top!

Tyler helped me baste the top to the batting

(sans back)

and I spent a little less than 2 hours (total)

last night and this morning

stitching in the ditch,

every 2nd or 3rd seam

horizontally and vertically

to stabilize everything.

I'm becoming a fan of this, even though it is extra work;

I feel like things stay lined up better.

I don't know ~ it could be all in my head....

I can definitely see the appeal of a wash away thread

for this method;

I could put the pedal to the metal

if I didn't have to worry about staying perfectly in the ditch!

As it is - I go s u p e r slow.

My backing fabric just arrived in the mail

(wow - that was fast!)

so I will throw very carefully lay the quilt back on the floor 

and get a kid to help me baste the backing to the other 2 layers,

then I'll mark the lines for my hand-quilting

(just a few ~ no time to go crazy ;-)

and put in about an hour of machine quilting

before I'll need to set it aside for other work.

I'm thinking I am actually going to be able to pull this off.

Stay tuned....

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