Life Looking a Little Better

Finally I have managed, with lots of encouragement from my 'supervisor' aka. hubby, to get most of the quilting done on the comforter that I have been working on - guess it comes down to the fact that when it is for a competition, you try just that much harder and end up .... stuffing it up, and having to unpick, unpick, unpick. All is good though and this afternoon I was able to attach the binding strips and to start pinning it down ready for hand stitching tomorrow.

Now to show you what else I have been putting together this month. Do you remember me buying a pack of fat 1/8th's back in March at the 'Girls Stitch In' I attended at Highfields (near Toowoomba), well I have put it all together and created a comforter that I am calling 'Pretty In Pink'.

It began with me thinking (that doesn't always work for me - thinking that is) that I would use a piece of pinky-red polar fleece for the backing, however, it just didn't seem to work.

So I left deciding on what I would back it with and concentrated in making the blocks from the 14 fat 1/8th's that I had. 

They were tied together with a pretty piece of pink ribbon and I was able to add it as an embellishment to my blocks. I also added other bits and pieces as embellishment as well.

Next came a great find of a dusty pink polar fleece throw that I picked up and knew it would be absolutely perfect for this project. Now to go looking for 'something' to use for the sashing and border. Everything just seemed to fall into place.  I cheated a tad with my quilting on this one (hey, it's for me!) so I found a wavey stitch on my machine, that I put down the centre of each line of sashing and then also around the border. Actually it looks really nice. 

Now I was in a quandary as to what was required for the binding. As you can imagine I did not have a real lot of the fat 1/8th fabrics left, but thought they were just what it needed to finish it off. So began cutting up 1 1/2" strips that were as long as the scraps allowed. Some pieces were as small as 4" long, others 6-8" long. What blew me away was that I had enough joined (even on the diagonal) to make around 7m in length! Yes!! I had enough to use as a binding on this comforter.

Here is a photo of my finished comforter.

Now it's time to complete the comforter for the competition - closing date 31 July - and get onto beginning another one for hubby. I have cut the fabric ready for it, but feel it needs 'something' else, so will contemplate on it for a few more days before I begin it.

For now, I think I have earned a rest, so with feet up (yet again), I shall have a few pieces of chocolate and say goodnight.

'Til next time, take care and continue to stay safe.
June