October has been a great month for finishing quilts! It must be the cooler weather motivating me to snuggle under a quilt to enjoy hand stitching.
I finished Cozy Afternoon which was 136" of binding. It was a little harder on my hands because of the flange in the binding on the front of the quilt. I should have cut the binding strips a bit wider to accommodate the flange, but I forgot, and had to really pull the binding to cover the stitching line on the back. A quick finish, was the Peaceful Country Roads quiltalong which was 21.25" square, so it only adds 85" to the monthly total, but I'll take it! Then I finished a little hand quilted miniature block called Times Nine. That added 48" to the total. And the big finish was Easy Street, a Bonnie Hunter mystery from 2012. It finished at 88" square, which adds 352" to the tally. October's total is 621". And adding this number to September's total of 2,832" gives me a total of.... 3,453" of binding in 2015 so far! Woohoo! PS.... I hope someone is checking my math :) Linking up to Julie's binding blitz.
I started back to sticking on a huge king size quilt that I'm about halfway through, and has been sitting in the closet untouched for maybe a year. I will finish it THIS month! This week would be even better!
And the big finish was Easy Street, a Bonnie Hunter mystery from 2012. It finished at 88" square, which adds 352" to the tally.
Wow! That's a lot of finishes! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see all these bindings!
ReplyDeleteAny way you add it up, that is a lot of binding. Best of all, it represents a lot of finishing. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteI started back to sticking on a huge king size quilt that I'm about halfway through, and has been sitting in the closet untouched for maybe a year. I will finish it THIS month! This week would be even better!
ReplyDeleteGosh that's a lot of binding :-)
ReplyDeleteCongrats a lot of binding and a lot of finishing! October was a great month isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm really really impressed! (I just did a quick calculation on my own year's worth of binding - I think I'm at 160 inches...)
ReplyDeletesome great finishes I enjoy the hand sewing part of the binding, very relaxing just wish I culd aster the quilting part
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all those finishes!
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