Making Bindings

The last quilt in the previous parcel to Karen arrived home on Monday.  I love how "Berry Parfait" has turned out.  The colours are beautiful.

This week I'll start sewing down bindings on "Swoon", "Star Pop", "Happy Stripes" and "Berry Parfait" although they won't be finished before I go away on holiday on Saturday.

Another parcel of quilts has gone to Karen for quilting - the last one to be put together was "Fireworks".  The border is fairly wide because I plan to make the edge wavy.

"Starlets" is also in the parcel.  This is a lap-size quilt and was very quick to make and sew together.

On Saturday I'm flying to the Gold Coast with Elizabeth, Matt and the little sweethearts for 10 days.  I hope to catch up with my friends Diann and Bill if they're back from their travels.  Then I'll have another 10 days holiday at home before going back to work.

Adding Borders

In between spending time with Jenni, Kurt and Vinnie, there has been some sewing - mainly adding borders to a couple of quilt tops.

25 Half-Square Triangle blocks all made from offcuts from Swoon and Dwell 2 with a few others added that I had been saving.  

As the blocks end up at 8" finished, I added sashings and posts to make it a more usable-sized quilt.  The outer border is 4-1/2" and I might scallop the edge after it's quilted.

Added a white border to Sewcialites so I wouldn't have to worry about points when adding the binding.

Karen had a busy weekend.  Two quilts are in the post on the way back:  Star Pop in Nantucket Summer

and Swoon in a few different Bonnie and Camille ranges.  I made this during the Summer Swoon SAL.

Sewing up Starlets blocks at the moment, then I'll get to Fireworks and have another parcel of quilt tops to send to Karen.

I had a fun time with Vinnie and I hope he did too - very strange for him to be home with just Nanna.