A major part of the day was spent trying to master (although that is far too grand a term to use for what my results were) Ricky Tims' piped mitered binding technique. Despite the ability to call up his video, "Grand Finale", at will on my laptop for step-by-step instructions, the end product was not as spot on as I wanted it to be. With binding sewn onto three sides of a small quilt, I threw in the towel on that particular project for the day.
The project is my entry for the President's Challenge. Our guild president sets a challenge to members for every quilt show. This year the challenge is "Gray - the New Neutral." Any shade of gray can be used and as many as you like. The gray tones are to be combined with at least 25% of one other eye popping color such as lime green or hot pink. Mine will be gray and neon orange. The size of the quilt is 100" total perimeter, or no larger than 25" X 25" if making a square quilt. So as you can see, it is a small project, and hey, why not try out a new technique while you're at it? The wisdom of that idea is being questioned by moi as this is being written.
like the mix of fabric here Mary along with your amazing pieceing your points are so accurate.
ReplyDeleteWould not know where to start on the mitred binding but I am sure you will suss it out.
Best of luck with your grey project
Thanks for the nice comments as regards the piecing. It was not ever thus. Our guild had a workshop with Sally Collins ("Mastering Precision Machine Piecing")several years ago. That workshop instantly improved my piecing abilities 100%.
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