I Heart Binding Quilts

I personally love to bind quilts.  It's my favorite part of the process.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's because when you're done the binding, you are DONE the quilt!  Maybe it's because I really enjoy the quietness of hand stitching.  While my 1-2-3 Binding Tutorial seems to have gone viral this summer via Pinterest (like, holy cow batman!!), I managed to finish a few quilt projects this month.  I finally got a charity quilt done for our guild.  FINALLY.  It took one evening.  I'm not sure why I procrastinated.  I also put on a scrappy continuous bias binding onto this quilt!

It was completely accidental that it happens to have 3 perfect Windows logos in it!  Crazy -leave it to my children to come up with that one!  I straight line quilted it with pretty pastel threads to match the 'windows' and now the binding is all done.

So, to all the Pinners, "gee thanks!"  : )  You've completely doubled the hits this blog gets in only 2 months.  Stick around and see what I have up my sleeve this fall.  You just might see more you like!

I am linking to The Needle & Thread Network for WIP Wednesday, as well as Lee's at Freshly Pieced.  While you are over at TN&TN, check out the past couple of posts!  We're celebrating one year with some cool prizes.  Later!

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Design Wall

I finished one more quilt top as of December 31st!  It's for me.  I had a load of pretty bright floral fabrics.  There were a lot of aquas and spring greens.  I'm not a 'cool' color person, so I threw in some yellow/orange/red prints that seemed to be similar in scale.  I wanted a pretty, simple, scrappy charm quilt.  Away I went, cutting and sewing 4" squares together.  I decided along the way (because I never plan anything) that I would alternate the warms and the cools.

cool on the left, warm on the right

Since nearly all the prints have white in them, I decided I would sash each 4 patch block with white.

Once each of the 4 patches were surrounded in white, I started to refer to this as a quilt full of 4-pane windows.  All good?

So I got the top finished and I love it!  It's fresh, pretty, and just for me.  I got some sunny, snowy photos out on the back deck.  I showed my kids... "Look guys!  It's a Windows Quilt!"  My kids oohed and aahed and then one pointed out the WINDOWS LOGO.  (WHAT!??)

No way!  You've GOT to be kidding me!  This was a total accident.  I cannot for the life of me believe I just made myself a Microsoft logo quilt!!!  ROLF.  ooops.

Happy New Year's Eve!  Hope you are laughing at this one! See you in 2012.