k3n

Beautiful - the limited pallette of fabric colours really makes the pattern stand out!

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pocoellie

Great job!!

Barbm

very nice! I chose the same layout for mine. Hope to get mine finished next week. Need to finish hubby's b-day present first.

Harmony

Great work! And you FINISHED a quilt AND a New Year's resolution. Y'all are awesome!

Marcia

You did a great job! Do you have that wonderful feeling of accomplishment that comes with finishing a project? (I don't get that feeling very often--I finish the top, then put it down and never quilt it!!)

sewjoyce

Very pretty! (Don't you just love the great feeling you get when you actually finish a quilt? :wink: :wink: ) Keep up the good work!

sewnsewer2

Great job!

b.zang

Hey - I learned about it here!! Self-binding is when you make the backing for the quilt bigger than the front then use it to bind the quilt. I think there's supposed to be some "rule" but I made mine a good 2 inches all the way around. Then, I folded the back in to the center and pressed it so that there was now just enough all the way around the quilt to pull to the front and stitch. I top-stitched 1/8" from the folded edge around the front of the quilt and that created what looks like a binding around the quilt. Lovely!! No bias binding to make!! One quick step!! I think by being so generous with the fold before bringing the fabric around to the front, my binding will be nice and strong because it's double thickness. Here are a couple of links I found in a previous post. Maybe I should have checked them out before doing mine, but it turned out just fine.


http://www.fabriclandwest.com/quilte...nding_mock.htm
http://how-to-quilt.com/cms/index.ph...=143&Itemid=39

The colours in this quilt were chosen "blind" because of the mystery aspect, but the instructions said to think ocean or oriental and I thought desert. Actually I thought "hmm, what do I have in my stash that will work?" :lol:

littlehud

It's beautiful. What is self binding. Share with us. It sounds interesting.