A Finish to Report and the Week Ahead on the Design Wall Monday

KerBloom! is now finished.   I spent the last 2 hours and 40 minutes sewing the binding on.  I watched the Amazing Race and the Good Wife.  I love the Good Wife.  And nearly 3/4 the way through the Mentalist.

My standard Sunday Night Fare.

The great thing about finishing KerBloomm! is that I get to claim the quilt and the backing on both my next week's Stash Report AND my OPAM for April.  Which means I am at 14 completions for the year, and I am right on track for One Project A Month for the first quarter of 2014.  Yes!

My week's work will be to complete the quilting on the Star quilt, which needs a really dynamite   name.  I am doing ruler work which is slowing me down.  I should have done Meandering Stars and it would be done by now.  but I wanted to practice with my channel locks on the wheels.  If I would have realiz
ed that that only works on the four small corners and that all the stars require angled lines, I could have rethought the process and made a different choice.

See where I forgot to lock the rollers?  It made the quilt skew and the sewing line was skewed as well.

The other thing I wanted to get accomplished this week is to finish up Sunshine on the Water for the Fiber Group.  And I need to put the borders on the Machine Quilt and get that ready for the frame.  I already have the backing!

That will be a nice finish to report on my Stash Report as well!

The End Is Here! KerBloom! is Quilted

Quilting

And the fix worked perfectly.  I can't say it was easy, but it wasn't hard either, really.  More of a logistics problem and a bit of pain in the pattooty work.

I found a piece of the same backing fabric.  When you have short term memory you forget that you cut off about 1/2 yard and folded it up in the Batik Section of the quilting room.  So when I was searching for the pieces
I had leftover from the top I put somewhere, I found the backing piece.  I never found the top leftovers.

Here is the seam line across the back

Since I had 1/2 yard of 44 inches and needed 12 inches by width of quilt, I cut the 1/2 yard cross-wise in three 14 inch strips and sewed them together.  It was sort by ab out 4 inches which I hacked off the side of the quilt back that hung over too far.

The quilting is cool.  It was easy, different enough to not be boring, and versitile enough to not get me stuck in a corner somewhere I couldn't get out of.

I hand sewed it all the way across the quilt using a back stitch.  I felt it was pretty secure.
I reattached the quilt back to the frame using my Red Snappers (love those things!)
 And I finished up the last row of quilting and took it off the frame.

Love that moment!

Here is Frank standing on the bed holding the quilt up.  It is huge!    My bed is queen sized and it fits across the mattress and hangs over the other side a bit.

And heavy. It took 14 bobbins!

And it is finished!  The quilting anyway, I have th binding cut already.  I is the multicolored splash sashing that is beside the black sashing.   An odd choice, but it came in the kit that way. 

So it is "nearly" finished.

The End Is Near!

I Can Sure Get Myself Into Trouble!  Yes Siree Bob!

Here I am, for the last two days quilting my little fingers to the bone on the KerBloom! Quilt. 

Minding my own business, just quilting away.  And I am coming down to the end.  The last row.  You know the feeling, you are almost there.  Whether you quilt on a domestic head or a long arm, that feeling when you reach the last row is the same.

The end is near!

Yes!

Ruh -Rho!

Before putting this quilt on the frame, I made the backing to the size needed.  It was the right size, I swear!

But when I got to that last row.......this is where the end of the backing hit the quilt top.  I must have put it on sideways.

Darn........darn.............darn..................darn.............darn!

(That is not exactly a direct quote.)

I need at least another foot on there.  So my current plan is to get a piece of fabric a foot by whatever length, baste it to the short back and then quilt the remaining foot of the quilt.  I figure that people hand piece quilts and quilt them, so I can handpiece a back and quilt it. 

Since I am quilting a dense pattern I am sure it will be sturdy.

Oh, but I can get myself into trouble.  Yes, I can.