I spent all day yesterday, machine quilting, and managed to stitch the binding on and trim the excess fabric too. I sat and hand-stitched the binding while chatting with friends, and watching TV, and was able to complete the binding after breakfast this morning!
I took this picture on an angle, to show some of the quilting. I stitched a "double stitched" grid in the centre of the panel, then echo-stitched around the flowers. There is lots of stitch-in-the-ditch elsewhere, as well as accent stitching around the flowers in the borders.
Here is my completed project. I named it Victory Garden, after the line of fabric. I had fun stitching the mitered corners on the two floral borders. I had to add some compensating strips to make my flying geese border fit. Now I have to decide what I want to do with this project!
I decided to add a narrow yellow border to the panel, then use the narrow stripe of the matching border print for the second border.
I spent my sewing time yesterday making flying geese in 4 different colours.These are sewn together, and will be the third border, followed by the wide stripe of the border print.
I'll be happy when this is together, as it waited much too long in my stash!
I spent the morning making split pea soup from my Mother's recipe. I had a ham bone waiting in the freezer, along with some diced leftover ham to add. It smells wonderful, and will be dinner tonight along with toasted English muffin bread. I read on another blog about making this in the oven, but I make mine in the microwave. It cooks in 6 minutes, and is wonderful toasted!
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