Binding the Supernova Quilt

 Sorry, Supernova quilt.  Your time to fly free is over.  

 As I showed in my last post, I quilted the Supernova quilt with an allover loopy meander.  It was easy, stress free quilting for me.  Sometimes I need that.

This is the bottom edge of the quilt.  Yee-ha!  It's always exciting to make it to the end.

 

 Here is the quilt, rolling off the quilting frame and draped over the ironing board.

 All loose thread ends were woven into the quilt.

 I usually cut my binding from fabric that matches the outer border of the quilt.  But I went wild this time and cut it from two of the orange fabrics used in the quilt top.  I alternated the two fabrics as I sewed the binding strip together.  I'm living on the edge - Ha!ha!

 This is the second orange fabric I used.  Both fabrics are batiks.

 Stitching the binding to the front of the quilt.

 View of the quilt and binding as it comes off the back of the sewing machine.  Almost finished!  

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Jennifer Thomas

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Nine Patch Quilting Complete

 Here is the simple Nine Patch quilt I posted about last week, all quilted and rolling off the machine.  Oh Yeah!

 As you can see in this edge pic, I quilted an average of four swirl motifs in each square.  That makes 36 swirls per Nine Patch block, for a whopping total of approximately 1,080 swirls over the whole quilt top.  Whew!  No wonder my back is achy.

 I selected this pretty green Jinny Beyer fabric for the binding.  It features a small black diamond pattern all over.

 You can see the diamonds a little bit, here in this photo, where the binding is being pinned to the edge of the quilt.

After pinning, the binding was sewn on to the front of the quilt with a walking foot, and my trusty Elna.  It's all ready for some TV time, while I flip it over and hand sew it to the back of the quilt with some groovy green matching thread.  I enjoy the relaxation of hand stitching, and usually have a hand sewing project on hand.  Do you hand sew, machine sew, or both, like me?  Leave a comment below.

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Jennifer Thomas

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June UFO Binding Question

Mulberry Square was my quilting UFO challenge project for the month of April.  I quilted the whole 99" x 99" square top.  Because the quilt has a scrappy look to it, I approached the quilting with a scrappy theme, too.  I used up all my leftover bobbins, and quite a few spools of quilting thread that were previously almost empty.   I intend to complete this quilt for my June UFO challenge. 

Yesterday, I spent all of my sewing time weaving in the loose thread ends.  I never do this as I quilt along.  I always wait until the end and do it all at one time - ugh!  So tedious!

Here's a little pic of the quilt back.  The back is pieced.  When the quilt is complete, I'll try to get a photo of the whole back up for you to see.  I like this pic, because you can see a lot the quilting designs I experimented with on this quilt.  

Now on to my problem!  I usually match the binding fabric to the outer edge fabric on my quilts.  Because this is such an old UFO, I'm sure I don't have any more of that fabric.  What color fabric should I use?  Should I try to get as close as possible to the outer border color, or punch it up with something else?  This quilt has a lot of gold, purple, green, and blue.  Help!!!  I need suggestions!

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Jennifer Schifano Thomas