The blog has been a little quiet lately. I'm battling a flare up of bulging disk/sciatica that is taking the wind out of my sails a bit. Also tackling a freelance design job I do every January, which is unavoidably keeping the sciatica pretty riled up – all the sitting sitting sitting in front of the computer. I get up every few minutes to stretch and get new ice packs like some old lady.
On my desk are half-done colly bird pieces (lovety love these birds, and no, can't show you yet) and my throw quilt is in the final stage of construction. It's been sitting neglected for weeks and weeks. I seriously can't wait to show you that thing. My first quilt!
I've just sat here for the last several minutes and written an amusing paragraph on how I managed to booger up the angled binding join like a big noob and have to fix it. After staring at this photo that I took to show you my mistake, it became clear that I'm an even bigger noob for not realizing it's actually probably correct. Wow. Er... Right? Just need to sew those angled ends right sides together and Bob's your uncle, yes?
Mmmkay. After joining that {with no further mishap imagined or otherwise}, all that's left to do is hand stitch the binding on the back side and give it a wash.
That first picture shown above is the fabric selection (Cotton & Steel and Michael Miller) I've recently purchased to turn my girls' old duvet covers into quilts. Haha. I planned on giving it to them for Valentines day but it's not looking good is it?