I decided to hand stitch the back of the binding on this table runner so I am about 2/3 done with it.
I had planned on using the same fabric as the border and backing but when I measured it out, I didn't have quite enough. I pulled this other smaller print that was from the same year and used it instead. I could have just pieced in the small print with the other print too, but didn't.
I wanted to explain why I used the zig zag stitch on the flannel quilt in yesterday's post. If you do a straight stitch to finish the binding it makes the edge rather stiff. Using a zig zag keeps it soft and flexible.
I spent a large part of the afternoon yesterday dismantling my childhood photo album. Both covers had broken loose and the black pages shredded every time I touched them. They left little crumbs of black lint all over the table. I sorted the pictures into piles which I will now put in labeled expandable folders. The pile below is all of my pen pals' pictures, more than 40 of them. I don't know whether to throw them away or put them in a folder. I wrote to them when I was 10-16 years old and there is only one of them that I remember enough about that I could actually contact her. The pictures certainly won't mean anything to my kids when I'm gone.
We were only on the edge of the storm yesterday so we only had about an inch of snow in the morning. We had rain/sleet mixture late in the afternoon and the rest of the storm is supposed to hit today.
I had planned on using the same fabric as the border and backing but when I measured it out, I didn't have quite enough. I pulled this other smaller print that was from the same year and used it instead. I could have just pieced in the small print with the other print too, but didn't. I wanted to explain why I used the zig zag stitch on the flannel quilt in yesterday's post. If you do a straight stitch to finish the binding it makes the edge rather stiff. Using a zig zag keeps it soft and flexible.I spent a large part of the afternoon yesterday dismantling my childhood photo album. Both covers had broken loose and the black pages shredded every time I touched them. They left little crumbs of black lint all over the table. I sorted the pictures into piles which I will now put in labeled expandable folders. The pile below is all of my pen pals' pictures, more than 40 of them. I don't know whether to throw them away or put them in a folder. I wrote to them when I was 10-16 years old and there is only one of them that I remember enough about that I could actually contact her. The pictures certainly won't mean anything to my kids when I'm gone.
We were only on the edge of the storm yesterday so we only had about an inch of snow in the morning. We had rain/sleet mixture late in the afternoon and the rest of the storm is supposed to hit today.