In looking through my remaining flannel scraps, I found flowers, lady bugs, butterflies, salamanders, birds, and dogs. There were some scraps of pink, too. I jumbled all of these together to make squares for the quilt I finished today – Dogs in The Garden. This is another small quilt, 36 x 42 inches. I pieced the top with my Singer 201 and finished it with my Singer 401.
The back of the quilt is a piece of
flannel from my stash and it continues the garden theme. No dogs on
the back, though.
I used a polka dot scrap for the
binding and had less than one inch left over. There was just barely
enough to join the two pieces of binding. Yikes! Someone asked me how to join the two ends of the binding with a bias seam and this photo shows how to do this. One end needs to overlap the other end by the width of the binding. My binding was three inches wide, so I needed to overlap the ends by three inches. Right sides together. Make sure the folds in the binding are as shown in the photo and also note the twist (or lack of twist) in the ends. Sew on the diagonal along the pins in the photo. That's all there is to it.
Frieda enjoyed exploring the
scrap bag while I sewed.
I hope Spring has arrived where you
are. Our high temperature today was 45 degrees with stiff winds and
spitting rain which is supposed to change to wet snow later this afternoon.
Perfect weather for a lap quilt.
Happy sewing, everyone!
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