I had real trouble manoeuvering the quilt sandwich on my domestic machine. I used my walking foot which was a bear to attach with my shaking hands. And the vibrations caused the needle to fall out. Which was, again, a bear to reinsert with my shaking hands. I had used a duvet cover for the backing but after auditioning all of my fabrics, couldn't find something suitable for the binding. I went to Sew Sisters and found a fabric which wouldn't compete with the batik frame and wouldn't compete with the may coloured scrap pieces.
Cutting the 2.5" strips was not a problem. But then for some reason when sewing them together, I sewed on the diagonal in the wrong direction. Seam ripped them out, and again had to stop because of shaking hands. I machine sewed the binding onto the back of the quilt, and then machine sewed it onto the front. I struggled with the corners until I came to the last corner where I had to rip out the stitching. I only had about 12" left to sew but again, shaking hands. I finally finished the last stitches this morning.
So the quilt is finished and so is my large quilting "career". And this quilt is fitting as it is made from scraps of 20+ years of quilting. I can recognize fabrics from the various quilts I have made over the years. So it is quite meaningful in that it represents the many quilts I have gifted over the past two decades and it is my final quilt gift to my niece.
Now onto smaller creations.
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