Yesterday was a fun day. I did get to drop in on the quilters, but ooh, how I wanted to stay ! There were atleast 6 or 7 ladies there, with their most recent projects draped around the room, and tables set up with works in progress everywhere ! What a fun group has evolved in the last few years.......I hope I have a project ready to work on with them next month. The only down side I saw was that there didn't seem to be room to baste a twin-sized quilt on a frame like I used to do there sometimes.
I didn't take pictures, as my camera doesn't want to recognize a memory card anymore. Now I have to take a few on the internal memory, and then hold my breath as I convince the camera to copy them to the card. That's why my posts are short on photos lately !
But the food program started early yesterday, so I had to be there by 1 p.m. I so enjoy getting to know lots of faces of the regulars who come weekly. They recognize me now, and smile and speak niceties......I just love it. They're my NEIGHBORS, and I love THEM !
This afternoon, I finished hand-quilting the last two blocks of the baby quilt, and will try to get started on the binding tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to share a tip.
This backing was just barely big enough to stick out an inch on a couple of sides of the quilt, so when it was time to quilt this last edge, I basted a doubled 4-inch-wide strip of fabric to the backing in that area, going through the batting also; then, I had something for the q-snap frame to get ahold of. Otherwise, I would have had to fasten it too close to the quilt-top to be able to quilt that last side edge.
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