Binding

This is how I did my binding last time.  Yup, rolled around a Dixie cup and the little scrap triangles stuffed inside the cup.  Nice, neat, and because the cup is waxed it removes really neat if you want.

I went on a binge ordering bobbins because I reached the point where I was unwinding bobbins by hand just to use them again because I was out.  So lets just say I am stocked up for awhile.  I like to wind a lot at a time of the same thread, especially piecing thread.  And then of course I am always using the opposite machine of what I already have a bobbin in such color wound for.

So here is the quilt that I bound with this binding:

Made as a house warming gift for Aunt Laura my sister-in-law.  The sage green exactly matches her wall, and I made the quilt before I saw the wall so it is happenstance.

Lesson learned quilting this quilt is that let yourself be free when you machine quilt.  The quilting went so fast, I was ultra relaxed about it and just did what came into my head, some loop de loops, some swirls, I just went with the fabric.

All the fabrics are from stash, even the backing was on-hand, so it felt really good to know that a whole quilt came out of my collection, and no it is not now just sitting on the shelf collecting dust, but out doing good service in the world.