A Little More

I worked a little on the orphan blocks I want to turn into placemats. Here are four of them. 

I added borders to make them 12” x 18”. 

The forth one took a little more work because I kept making mistakes. 

I still need to quilt them. That’s where the decisions come in. I can put them on the longarm with one large piece of fabric for the back, or I can do straight line quilting on the sewing machine. Either way, I will have to do binding. I can also just layer each placement right sides together with the backing and batting, and sew the edges, leaving a small space to turn the placemat right side out, then add some quilting. The advantage to that method is that it doesn’t require binding, so that’s tempting. I need to make a decision and not let myself get stalled out. This will be an ongoing project, and I will need to make a lot more.

I worked a little more on the kit I found last week. This one:

It’s going slowly, but I have the first row done. 

I have a few more blocks made besides these. Maybe four or five. There are only 16 blocks in the whole quilt, so it won’t be too big. I just want to get it finished.

I have a quilt to get quilted today, but first I need to order a new quilt design for it. I have an idea what I want to do, and don’t have anything in my computer files that match what I want. Tomorrow, I’m taking my stepdad to Lake Jackson for a doctor appointment, so I need to get as much done today as I can.