What I'm Working On

Carol here ~

Now that the weather is a bit cooler I have been getting some bindings done.  I finished the binding on the Hunter Star quilt that Dan had been working on back in May.  You can read about that here.

I was pawing around in one of the cubbies upstairs and found this quilt that I had quilted in December 2020. I had started the binding but never finished it.  So, spent a lovely afternoon out on the front patio hand stitching the binding down.  This is another one of Dan's designs, doesn't really have a name and not sure when it was pieced ~ sometime back when we had the shop.

Then I figured I was on a roll so yesterday decided to bind the big-ass Morning Star quilt I talked about back in March.

If you remember when I talked about it then you know that I thought the quilt was one size and it was actually another size ~ a bigger size.  Well, evidently the binding was made according to the first size as I got three quarters around the quilt with the binding and realized that there was not enough to finish.  ARRRGGHH!  

I looked in the 2-1/2" strips bins hoping there would be a strip in there.  Nope.  Dan even went out to storage see if he could find some there.  It would have been a miracle if there was as this quilt was pieced in 2010, that fabric is long gone.  

Poopy.  Now I have to unstitch what I have sewn and look for another fabric that will coordinate okay with the border fabric.  

Needless to say, when I realized I had all that unstitiching to do I threw the quilt on the floor, shut off all the lights, grabbed my book and headed out front on the patio.

 I also made a couple of pot holders/hot mats last week that I gifted.

We went for a motorcyle ride the other day, well, actually a trike ride.  I hadn't been on the bike in maybe three years?  Had a nice ride, it didn't bother my back which I was concerned about. 

Stopped for an ice cream on the way home.

A good day.  

Have a wonderful Monday!