Category Archives: Binding

Goals for the Week of February 17, 2025

February 17, 2025 6:37 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

Last week I had lots of goals, but got distracted.

Finish the notebook covers. – DONE
Bind the BQ 2024 BOM Blue Waters
Quilt Cindy’s Pizza Box Quilt – DONE
Prep Clues 4 & 5 of the BQ 2025 Mystery Quilt
Make 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread
Bind Illusions

Last week I quilted an extra quilt and I made 12 more Laura’s Little Notebook Covers. I’m out of notebooks, so that won’t be a continuing distraction. These were made from scraps I was given.

I did get the binding for Blue Waters sewn together, so perhaps after the Guild meeting tonight I’ll get it pressed and ready to sew on the quilt.

As for this week’s goals, I’m limiting them to 2:

Bind the BQ 2024 BOM Blue Waters
Prep Clues of the BQ 2025 Mystery Quilt through the center of the quilt.

My brother should be here towards the end of the month, then March, April and June will be crazy with travel and remodeling. So, I need to have the mystery instructions ready to post through at least August.

So, no personal quilting beyond the binding of Blue Waters until I get those instructions written. Ya’ll keep me honest, OK.

Posted in: binding, goals, Lauras Little Notebook

Weekly Goals for the Week of 1/27/25

January 28, 2025 6:14 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

First did I meet last week’s goals?

Quilt 2 quilts – I only got one done.

Bind the retreat Jelly Roll Quilt – DONE
At least 4 of the 12 Laura’s Little Notebooks. – DONE I have 6 finished, 1 just needs a snap, 2 more need topstitching and a snap and I have another 11 cutout and interfaced.

This week the goals are:

Quilt 2 quilts (I need to deliver them on Monday)
Bind Framed – this is on my UFO list and I’m showing it at the MQA Spring Gathering
Finish at least another 4 Laura’s Little Notebooks
At least 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread – I need all the units done before I can really start to assemble the blocks.
And now an odd goal — Don’t work on Compass Lonestar This quilt has been on numerous UFO lists since 2007. It started as a Quilt-As-You-Go project, but the reality is for a large project I don’t like this method — especially since I now have a longarm. Really just need to take it off the design wall so it doesn’t tempt me. I don’t need this quilt until mid-May and I’d like to get Living on Cornbread done by the end of next month.I wonder how much I can get done? There is a new quilt group forming that meets on Saturday morning, I’m going dancing either Friday or Saturday maybe both nights, and Brandon Quilters meets next Monday night.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, binding, goals, Lauras Little Notebook, quilting

Weekly Goals for the Week of 1/20/25

January 21, 2025 12:48 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

I have more quilting/textile goals for 2025 than I listed yesterday on my UFO list. I also want to post more regularly since this is typically how I track my quilting. To that end I’ve come up with this schedule:

Sunday – 2024 Catch up. Once I’m caught up I’ll revisit this.
Monday – Goals for the year or week.
Wednesday – What I’m Working On. This ties into the weekly Facebook post for Gulf States Quilt Association
Friday – Stash Report. How I’m doing on using my existing stash.

There may be other posts through the week, it will just depend on what’s happening. So this week’s goals are:

I have 2 quilts which need to be quilted this week.

I want to get this quilt from my UFO list bound and labeled. I want to turn it in at the next Brandon Quilters meeting.

There are 12 of these little notebooks on my list to get done by February 10th. I want to get at least 4 made this week.

Check back on Monday to see if I accomplish these goals or if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew.

Posted in: binding, goals, Jelly Roll Twist, Laura Little Notebook, Machine Quilting

Last Week’s Haul

May 22, 2022 10:57 am ⋅ Pam

For a number of years I was able to curb my purchases, limiting them only to the essentials — absolutely only what was necessary to complete my project. However, over the past 30 days I’ve gotten away from that. This was last week’s haul. Admittedly the 6 yards of batik was a steal – I think I paid $5 at the guild auction.

I am looking for peach fabrics for a quilt I’ve been asked to make, but that doesn’t explain the brown leaves or the other 2 orange fabrics above it. In my defense, they were all on sale, a couple 25% off that price since I took the end of the bolt.

But I went to Hobby Lobby to get 1/2 yard of white fabric for quilt labels. That was my downfall. I love the floral print. I’ve looked at it several times and walked away. But it didn’t happen this time. I bought it, picked the darker purple and the lighter green to go with it. But I struggle with 3 fabric quilts, so another green, the lavender and orange dot were purchased. I also picked up a few fun neutrals. Aren’t those “legal”?

My justification is that I’m getting projects done. Never mind that I purchased fabric the week before and the week I went to Kansas City.

A friend asked me if I could rebind the quilt his mother made for him in 1989. I said sure, and the last time he came through town he left it for me. It’s done is all dusty blues, many lighter than these white hearts on blue. Interesting, the binding is done as a facing. I opted for a traditional binding and found that Winterwool in this light blue was perfect. I simply bound over the edges, leaving his mother’s work in place. As a result, a bit the original binding is showing.

The next quilt finished is this 2008 retreat block swap quilt. The blocks are called Glenwood Avenue, although I have no idea where we got the pattern. Since I used the Dancing Dragonflies E2E design, I’m calling it Dragonflies Dancing Over Glenwood Avenue. I’ll take more pictures later.

As soon as I hit post, I’ll move Shimmer to the dryer then start the binding on Strip Twist.

Posted in: 2008 Retreat Block Swap, binding, Stash, Strip Twist

A Finish – Making Music

May 19, 2022 1:56 pm ⋅ Pam

I’m trying out the name ‘Making Music’ on my mini hex quilt. I won’t know if it sticks until I find my Pentel Gel Roller for Fabric. It can’t be far as I just make a label over the weekend.

This little quilt measures 10-1/4″ wide and 14″ long. I used Legacy 80/20 batting and 40 wt Glide in Strawberry Blonde. The quilting design is All That Jazz — or at least part of it.

Since I quilted it and it has those weird angles, I opted for a facing instead of a binding.

Speaking of binding I have 5 quilts which need to be bound. Last night I prepped my binding then wound it up for easier handling. The light blue, green , and pink bindings are all cut at 2-1/4″ width of fabric. The blue and green stripe is a batik cut length of fabric. I only cut it at 2″. The last binding has a faux lavender piping. The piping was cut at 1-1/2″ and the binding 1-1/4″.

Here they are sitting on their respective quilts.

The flower of the day is Portulaca. I bought it off the clearance rack because it said it was a “trailing annual”. I see now on the tag that it blooms in the summer and fall. Seeing those pink and orange flowers was a nice surprise this morning.

Posted in: binding, Garden, MiniHexMusic, Uncategorized

Design Wall Monday – March 21, 2021

March 22, 2021 6:14 am ⋅ Pam

The wedding quilt is off the frame and trimmed.

Binding has been made. I’ll find out later if I need to cut another strip of the green. I don’t remember if I measured the purple or the green when deciding how many strips to cut and the purple was ever so slightly wider.

While I was working on the binding, I had the long arm running computerized E2E designs on 2 customer quilts. I have 3 more to do, but I plan to wait until I get the binding done on the wedding quilt before I load the next one. Once I pull the drawer out on the sewing table there won’t be any room to get by to the long arm. But before I do that I have to clear the table.

There was enough space to make the binding, but there’s no way to bind even a small quilt until the table is cleared off.

See what others are up to over at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday.

Posted in: binding, Machine Quilting, Wedding Quilt

Finished (or not) Friday – 2/19/21

February 19, 2021 8:15 am ⋅ Pam

As the deadline for my 1st Personal Challenge of 2021 looms, progress is being made. This is the 3rd of the 4 blocks in this set of blocks for my sister in law. I was on track to have the last block made, but apparently wasn’t paying attention when I was cutting the fabric and got my turquoise and pink swapped. Since it will make a difference to the design, I need to cut more fabric.

Binding on the wonky dishes quilt is proceeding. During the evening the cats took turns briefly sitting on lap. It wasn’t until the 3rd cat got on me that things slowed down. Although she wasn’t on the quilt, she was sitting in such a way that it was making it difficult to see what I was doing. I suppose it’s fair my goal was 40″ and I was at about 48″.

Tonight I plan on pulling out the Alphabet BOM and making my final plan. Tomorrow is the Guild’s Zoom Sew Day and I hope to make progress on the top.

I’m linking up with Alycia Quilts for Finished (or Not) Friday.

350 Challenge February = 42
350 Challenge Cumulative = 98
Easy Breezy = 111

Posted in: 2021 - 350 Blocks, 2021 Personal 1, Alphabet Blocks, binding, Easy Breezy, Finished (or Not) Friday, Ruby's Sampler, wonky dishes

Binding in the Arctic Blast

February 17, 2021 6:34 am ⋅ Pam

Since I closed the door between the sewing room and living room, the air flow in the house is not optimal. I knew it was cooler in the sewing room vs the rest of the house, but I didn’t realize just how much cooler. 62.2 degrees fahrenheit – and this was around 2:30 PM! I’m going to be glad when this Arctic Blast goes back where it came from.

It’s entirely too cold to spend any time in there. A friend offered the use of a space heater, but there simply isn’t any room to safely use one in that space. It’s warmer in the rest of the house — although I admit to wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up around my ears. I’m using the time to guilt free binge watch Deep Space 9 while I work on the binding. I turned the first corner and I’m about 15″ down the first long side.

Posted in: binding, wonky dishes

The Binding Begins

February 16, 2021 9:53 am ⋅ Pam

I cannot believe I’m hand stitching another binding down. I don’t think I’ll be finished by next Tuesday, but I’m going to show the quilt anyway. I would love to get a snow pic, but with any luck by the time I’m done with the binding the snow will be melted.

Yesterday I was in my sewing room cutting the strips around noon. I didn’t have any lights on because it was bright enough with the light streaming through the big picture window. At one point I walked into the kitchen to put my lunch in the microwave. I opened my refrigerator and the light was out. I looked around the kitchen and realized the power was out. The rolling blackouts had started – only I didn’t know that’s what was going on.

I called the power company, they said it would be another 1-1/2 hours before power was restored. I sent an email to my bosses at work via my phone to let them know I had now power, fixed lunch and sat down to eat. In less than 20 minutes the power was back up. On the news they said the outages in our area were up to an hour. This morning as I was looking at the clocks which I had not reset, sure enough they were about 45 minutes off.

My power had been off for about 25 minutes by the time I noticed it. Had I been anywhere else in the house other than my sewing room, I would have noticed immediately.

Posted in: binding, wonky dishes