Ready for Binding

It gives me peachy pleasance to tell you lot that the quilting is finished for Snips as well as Snails. Today I'll run upwards on the binding as well as showtime on the hand-stitching. Yesterday's business was to quilt the background. I'm using Tracey Russell's blueprint called "Snakes." Tracey has a serial of gratis displace quilting tutorials on YouTube at Whirls 'n Swirls Quilting. It's worth subscribing to her channel. Her designs are slow plenty fifty-fifty for us novice gratis displace quilters. The off-white sections were done alongside a natural YLI thread.

Things were going along swimmingly until I flipped it to the dorsum to banking concern tally my tension as well as discovered I'd caught a niggling corner of the quilt. Doh!

Fortunately , it was but a niggling flake of stitching , as well as it was pretty slow to fix. When the interior off-white portions were finished , I switched off to a low-cal greenish Superior thread to quilt the border.

When it was finished , it looked similar this.

You tin sack encounter that Sadie didn't waste matter fifty-fifty a minute getting to operate on the snugglability test.

And the , um , "spa" test.

Smitty , who's the existent expurrt inward quilt testing , was somewhat appalled at this breach of quilt inspector etiquette. Obviously , she needs to a greater extent than coaching. Amateurs. What's a truthful cat to do?

Here's how it looks from the back.

Before I started quilting yesterday , I finished stitching across the bottom of the Hocuspocusville block. It's a niggling difficult to encounter the unstitched parts on this block , but there's but a niggling flake to produce to complete off the endure yesteryear portion. I'm hoping to convey this finished earlier the weekend is over.

Today I'm getting a badly needed haircut as well as picking upwards my spectacles from the optician. Recently I spent a tidy amount having novel lenses position inward my spectacles as well as my prescription sunglasses. The sunglasses were nigh iv prescriptions old. When I couldn't read a map on our final trip , I knew it was fourth dimension to update them. My regular spectacles were 2 prescriptions behind.

There are things I abhor spending coin on as well as spectacles are ane of them. The other is novel tires for my car. So much coin , as well as hence niggling satisfaction. There's no wages inward standing dorsum alongside a skillful friend as well as maxim , "Check out the novel tires on my car! Snazzy , huh?" Yeah...not nearly every bit much fun every bit a novel sewing machine. There are advantages to beingness able to encounter , yet , as well as and hence I'll get non to mean value nigh the $$$. Actually , 2 pairs of spectacles counts every bit $$$$$.

Hopefully I volition convey turned a few corners yesteryear the adjacent fourth dimension nosotros talk. For forthwith , I'll but lick my fiscal wounds as well as telephone yell upwards it a morning.