Between staying up til midnight last night working on my peacock quilt and having a sick baby home all day, I am tired and ready to go to bed. Of course, my 3 year old has other plans.
I have been making progress on the peacock quilt, but it is never as fast as I would like it to go. Take for instance last night. I decided to sew on the binding because the borders were essentially done and I doubted the quilt was going to shift any further. I figured if I got the binding on, I could hand close it while watching my baby at home today. Well, I got about 1/4 the way around the quilt and thought to myself, "DUH! If there was ever a time to try machine binding, it was on this quilt! I mean the border is a nice dark color and the back is so busy, if I made a mistake somewhere, no one would find it. So I got the seam ripper out and took of the binding and reapplied it to the back side. But, I wasted a good 45 minutes or so. Today I managed to finish putting it to the top side. While I don't mind the way it turned out on this quilt (I'll have pictures later), I'm not sure I will do every quilt this way. There is something to be said about how neat and trim a hand applied binding looks.
I have a few more things left to do on the quilt before it is finished. There are a couple of spots in the border that I need to redo, I need to add the label, and I wanted to add a couple of things to top in some of the squares between the blocks. Since I have already done all the in-the-ditch quilting, I'm not worried about shifting, so I saved those sections for last in case I didn't have time.
Hopefully, tomorrow I can accomplish those items before I go teach art to 3rd graders. I taught the stick project to the Kindergartners on Wednesday and they really seemed to enjoy it. It was rather messy, no doubt adding to their pleasure. I think it took me and the 2 volunteers about as long to clean up as it took to teach the class.
I can hear that our evening TV show is coming to an end, so it's time to put the girls to bed and get there myself. Zzzzzzzz.... I am ready!
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