Faux piped binding and baby hourglass quilt-- DONE!!

Made two of this- just in different colors.

made one of these- this was from a drawing my niece made

made two of this in different sizes

As you can see I've been working on non- quilty things... my nieces needed help with their costumes... so I tried this little adventure and let's just say that I like the creation process (no patterns) but I do not like sewing for people to wear... I unpicked and changed things so many times because I wanted them perfect that I was going crazy!!!! I made 5 shirts and one pair of pants and fixed the sleeves on another costume...... this took all of my quilting time and some but I finally got around to finishing this little quilt

..... I quilted it on my little sewing machine--- I quilted butterflies and put a faux piped binding on it.... its' not perfect but I think it turned out super cute!!

hourglass baby quilt

 I'm really proud of myself for doing it myself--- trying something new... but I'm a little on the I'm tired of sewing... what is wrong with me.... I have lots of WIP's that need to be done!!!



faux binding

folded up- you can see I used a couple of different colors

the back with minkee- you can kind of see the butterflies

you can see the butterflies and the faux piped binding

 Can you see the faux piping on the binding? I was at Walmart looking at quilting magazines and someone reached around me to grab a quilt magazine--- (what are the odds?) she asked if I quilted and then she invited me to the quilting gild-- what a quilting gild? I was super excited that would be a TON of fun. Anyway she told me that they had just had a meeting and someone had done a demo on this faux piping binding and I thought I could do that. I had originally started making prairie points- but I cut them wrong and was having a hard time fixing and so this was a wonderful solution (the prairie points are in the naughty corner). I tried it and I like it-- what do you think? All you have to do is cut out one piece larger than the other and cut a smaller piece and sew them together the width of your favorite binding and then sew it on the back of the quilt and then sew in the ditch on the front. ... I should have taken pictures while I was making this one..... sorry I don't think that well late at night. so I took a couple of faux pictures so you can see how to do it. I'm definitely going to do this again. saved me from having to sew the edge perfect and catch the back..... which I can never do.

I used a 2" strip and a 1 1/2" strip sewed together and ironed them in half

this will be the top

 

this will be the inside

 

sew it on the back like this



then you get this when you fold it over to the front and just sew it in the ditch of the binding (between the green and orange)

 

 

Well, that's what I've been doing... now I will be taking a break from sewing and quilting..... for awhile... I'm on my way out of town on a business trip and I went to the library and I have a couple of books to read (reading adults books does not happen often at this house).... Have a great week!