After being on my A Lovely Year of Finishes list for about 4 months running, and after being in the 2014 FAL for at least 2 quarters, I've finally finished my Mackintoshesque Art Deco inspired wall hanging!
My FAL goal setting post is here and my ALYOF goal setting post is here.
Kerry persuaded me that the best way to finish it was with faced binding. She sent me the link to this tutorial by OP Quilt which worked really well. OK, it's not perfect, but I was working with the edge of a 1/4" bias binding rather than a whole quilt. As you can see it's not perfectly flat at the edges.
But, quite frankly, I don't care! I also don't care that the back is an absolute mess.
I am very happy with the way the front looks and that's all that matters. Now I just need to get this baby on the wall. How the hell do I hang it up?!?
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reverse applique
bias binding on
the quilting
I've shown you a couple of sneak peaks of this project so far, and of course the entire solids fat quarter bundle I bought as I needed a couple of solid scraps, so I thought I should perhaps show you a bit more.
I'm making a wall hanging using reverse applique and fusible binding so it looks like a stained glass window. I'm following a pattern for this one as I fell in love with it and hand to have it. Above shows the coloured squares being sewn on and trimmed.
This is how it looks from the front. I sewed down each marked line, I then had to cut out the white fabric from in front of the coloured pieces.
So this is where I am so far. I actually started sewing on the fusible binding after taking this photo, I'll update you on that soon, but it's going so fast I think it might be almost finished... I hope so as this is my September goal for ALYOF.
