This past weekend there was nothing on the schedule due to the weather. I was rather pleased to just stay home and get some serious sewing done for a change. I worked exclusively on my Good Fortune quilt and managed to put all the borders on except the final one, which was sewn on just this morning.
Since the last photo I showed you was just a crumpled mess on the sofa, I took a moment to shoot a proper picture outside on the clothesline before I began to add those borders. It’s surprising to feel how heavy this quilt top is with all those seams.
This second photo shows the quilt center with border number one added to it. I really liked how the quilt looked as though it was floating at this stage, because of the white space around the edge to give it breathing room. I was also very happy with how everything fit together nicely, with no need for fudging.
Border number two seemed to take forever and I grew tired of sewing hundreds of those green triangles together. This border also fit together very well, and was a lovely way to create rhythm in the quilt by repeating the colours from the spinning stars.
The TA!DA! moment! This is the piecing finale of my Good Fortune and I’m so pleased to have my quilt top complete at this time. In the photo above you can see the final two borders added for a lovely finish. I had actually sewn border number three on Sunday afternoon but, because it was strip pieced I decided it was too fragile at that point and didn’t take a picture of it on the clothesline. I was afraid of the weight of the quilt top putting stress on all those little seams, stretching and opening them before I could get the last border in place. This morning I finished putting together two final strips of border and sewing all four sides on. That last border really makes for a beautiful finish, don’t you think? Now all I have to do is make a backing, binding and get this one quilted. I’m hoping I can put a backing together from stash but not sure if I’ve got enough yardage that will work for this one. I’m also considering something a bit different for my binding this time. I spotted another quilt finish on someone’s blog this morning and they had used a neutral for the binding, which had a lovely ‘airy’ effect, not taking away from the optical illusion of that final border.
Good Fortune on a frosty January morning.
until next time,
happy stitching, carol
Beautiful!
It’s always great to hear from you, Janet! I’d love to hear about your current projects.
Warm hugs xox
Wonderful! I think a neutral binding would be just the ticket. Those borders are amazing and it was so neat to see a pic of each one as it was added. Love the frosty picture….looks a tad cold in your little part of the world!?!? xoxo
Thanks for your feedback, Tammy! I think that I will definitely go for a neutral binding. It’s something I haven’t really done before but it will lend itself nicely in this circumstance 😮
I’m just back from walking to the post office and it’s a brisk -25 degrees celsius with the wind. Yikes! Needless to say, photos are great but to live in it one must be of hardy stock.