Two more finished
I think I’ve mentioned I’m in love with tying HeartStrings quilts especially when I can use a recycled cotton or flannel blanket for the batting. I tied these two tops pieced by Sue and her group in CA at the sew-in on Halloween with a little help from Sue and Jean and now they’re done.
My favorite first, our usual HeartStrings layout.
I know I talk a lot about hand stitched bindings but these tied quilts with the backing brought to the front are the exception. Ann and Brenda were stitching these down at the Maine sew-in using a decorative stitch and they looked good.
I will however continue to hand stitch my regular bindings. I like the way they look and I don’t have the patience to sit at the sewing machine and sew them twice. This one just needs to be folded over and sewn once. Quick and Easy just like I like it!
Look at these red ties – don’t they look great?
And here’s the second one I finished today too. I’m not as fond of the zig zag setting but I understand that people want to use different settings and it keeps it interesting.
And finally, I didn’t get started on assembling these blocks yet but I’ve got them arranged — except for two that I see in the photo that I want to move around. Keith gets home tonight so maybe after he goes to bed I’ll start sewing some of them together.
I prefer the diamond setting to the zig zag, too, but keeping it interesting is a high priority. We vary our center strip colors and do thematic ones sometimes just for that reason. And there are probably people out there who prefer the zig zag!
I agree about bindings. My least favorite part (and that’s putting it mildly)is machine sewing the binding on. I have the table extension and all but it still feels like a wrestling match, can’t imagine doing it twice even if I can use a cool decorative stitch. I like look over the back of my quilt and really look at the quilting I’ve done while I’m hand sewing the binding down.
The diamond layout is my pick too. Once I made a log cabin quilt and arranged in the zig-zag layout, just for something other that the “usual”. After it was done and on my bed, I was sorry and it was too late-live and learn.
Both quilts look great! I often use the zig-zag setting because it works with uneven numbers of rows. Have fun with your blocks
Mary I think you can probably do some of these in your sleep you’ve done so many charity quilts. But you know they always look so fabulous.
I like your new blog settings too.
what a compliment to see your work copied heh?
I like handsewing bindings down. I love the idea of the tied quilts for a nice quick finish!
These are all lovely quilts!
I am wondering what you are looking for when you are looking at your blocks and
say that you see 2 blocks that you want to move…just curious