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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Careful to watch the pins when you sit down to sew!

I don't know why it is but I'm so fascinated with all these pins when machine finishing a binding the JudyL way :) I love seeing all of them lined up in a row... Pinning closely assures me that I won't have any missed spots on the back side ;)

all I have to do is take my time and sew directly in the ditch on the front. ;) and WAL-LA!! Take a look at what I saw when I held up to take a look at what I sewed... a perfect seam on the back side ;) Can you see it? Maybe click the photo below to make it a little larger.

Invisible on the front of the quilt and perfect on the back - that makes me happy :)

Now just one more side to go.... did I mention that I love seeing all these long pins?? I must have taken 3 dozen pics of them to share with you.. LOL but I only selected my favorites for this post. ;)

and what do we have here? See those pink marks...... I had forgotten all about them, and Quiltaholic called me when she got my quilt on her longarm to tell me about what she noticed.

After some thinking I remembered back to a couple years ago when I "thought" I was going to hand quilt this one and had it on the frame my Daddy made for me and I had stood up behind the sofa in the den... and remembered a time with Nora (3 at the time) drew on it with her pink sidewalk chalk. Whew! I'm sure it will wash out. ;)

If not, them my white picket fence on my Texas Treasures Round Robin quilt will just have pink spots...? Edited to add - that after washing it DID come out! ;)



and ooogh - another thing I love - PERFECT mitered corners! ;)

If the sun ever comes out I'll take this quilt outside for a photo of the whole quilt! ;) I know I showed it to you all spread out on the kitchen floor already this week - but that's not the same is it? ;)


Love from Texas!


6 comments:

  1. Your quilting looks good! I haven't tried free motion quilting yet, but it's on my to-do list! One of these days!!

    Love all the pins in the binding too! :0)

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  2. The quilt looks beautiful!

    I'm not brave enough (nor ambitious enough) to pin my binding on like that. Actually, I don't pin mine at all!

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  3. That's a lot of pins! Do you sew over them or remove them as you come to them?

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  4. Dear Anonymous - I hope that you'll revisit to see my reply...

    Yes, I do sew over my pins. At a snail’s speed though. Rarely do I ever hit one or break a needle, but it has been known to happen. So just go slow and you should be OK. ;)

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  5. Bonnie, I am always fascinated by all the pins lined up perfectly too and I've been known to take pictures of them too. So glad your binding by machine is working for you.

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  6. Ok...I am crazy for pins. Where did you get them....or what kind are they. They look super thin...super long and with glass heads?
    Great pictures!

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