Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Squared up and ready for binding

Cutting off the edges and squaring up this quilt was a nightmare. I spent 2 days fretting over it and this morning I just finally did it. The diagonals when I measured them were pretty much equal. Normally I would face an art quilt, but this one is just too big for that. Plus maybe it needs a frame??? I just can’t deal with the wrestling match that facing a quilt this size with lots of fusible near the edges is. Although now I’m feeling guilting for not facing it!

I have cut skinny trial fabric strips to see what fabric to use for binding. I have a lot of potential fabrics, but many of them were just too small to cut all of the binding strips. I think I’ve settled on a blue and purple batik. I wanted one that was not too dark against the sky fabric.






Thanks for reading.
Chris

3 comments:

  1. Fabulous! I can only imagine how difficult this entire process was and admire you greatly for sticking to in and working it into the final stages. It's certainly a winner!
    Pat

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  2. You can have more than one color on the bindings, lighter on the sky, blue and purple elsewhere

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  3. Beautiful, very well done.

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