What a good day for a flag project, right? I'm still pulling out old projects to work on. This morning I finally created a setting for a little needle-punch house and flag I had done up years ago.
That's supposed to be a star in the blue corner of the flag. Of course. My own true love asked why the flag has a fish on it. Okay, then. It's just part of that homemade charm we all love (and some of us achieve more naturally than others).
The binding is a half inch instead of a quarter because of a mistake I made, but sometimes mistakes are for the best. I think the wider binding is a better choice for this one. Let's hear it for the oops that make things better rather than worse!
This last week I finished the blocks for the star quilt and assembled the blocks into rows. I'm waiting to put the rows together though. I signed up for a Craftsy class on machine quilting in sections and I'm considering it for this project. (I've quilted in sections before but I definitely need to refine my technique). In any case, glad to be done with four-inch stars!
I really like the design on this quilt. Ultimately, I'll add a narrowish red border and a wider blue border. Decisions for another day.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the rest of our Independence Day, remembering the celebrations of my childhood. We'd go to my aunt's where we'd eat lots of good food, pick cherries right off the tree, play ping-pong, throw horse-shoes, and climb trees. Lovely memories.
The quilt does look good with a wider binding. Yay! It looks great.
ReplyDeleteI love it when mistakes turn out for the best!
DeleteI like the wider binding too. I thought at first you had put it in a wooden frame. Your star quilt is great. You've got lots of space for some interesting machine quilting.
ReplyDeleteIt does look like a picture frame -- completely unintended effect. I'm going to play in EQ and see what I can come up with for quilting motifs for the star quilt.
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