Three Quarters quilted, just one more to go!!! Woo Hoo
But I do have a small problem ... with the backing. As I mentioned earlier the layering was a bugger to do ...
firstly they are really large quarters ... I laid them out on my bed yesterday and they completely cover it ... (so thats good as I found out from Luke yesterday that they have a Queen sized bed ????)
But also because as the backing fabric was the standard 42" width and the tops measure 40" PLUS the background border I had to improvise. Luckily I had the fabulous Trapeze Artist fabric from Lewis and Irene in a perfect match of colours so added an outside border to all 4 quarters ... cue much fiddling around to get the top and bottom Trapeze artists to be the same way up etc etc.
Then I thought should I use the full width of the Trapeze Artist fabric that I had cut on the back (which would be 4 1/2" finished) or should I marry it up with the outer borders on the front (which will be 2 1/2" finished) ???
Some devil inside of me then piped up and said ... Ooooh Go for the most difficult way and match them up!!!
So after much faffing around I decided to hand sew the borders together along the seam line in Bright Red thread so that line will remain constant during the layering process (hopefully)
After all that we finally got all four of the quarters layered BUT due to some F*** up, the backing fabric on one of the bottom edges of one of the quarters doesnt quite cover the top ....
linkyIt looks like the fabric wasn't cut quite straight and I needed to use all of the 4 1/2 metres (!!!!) that I had bought!
Im also not too impressed with the layering but after ripping the layers apart twice we just went with almost good enough... Its very heavily quilted and I dont think it looks too bad, but its not to my usual standard.
So my bad, I should have checked.
I should have straightened the edges.
I should have bought more yardage.
But it is what it is so I must put my big Girls knickers on and sort it!
Options.Simplest Solution .... I could cut 1/2" off the bottom border
Would I then need to trim the top borders too ???
And the side borders ????
Discuss!
Next Solution .... I have already cut an extra wide binding (I love a chunky binding)
It currently measures 2" wide (folded).
I could attach to front, turn to back and
hope that it covers the uncovered bits of the back.
Problem ... The backing fabric is fraying slightly along that edge ... Again makes me think it was taken off the bolt and not straightened up. For me to be happy with this solution I would want at least 3/4" of binding on the reverse of the quilt.
I dont really want to spend any more on this quilt for obvious reasons (and I am going to be totaling this one up later) Otherwise I could buy some more of the binding fabric and cut it extra extra wide!
So there you go my Darling Darksiders ... Put your thinking caps on and please let me know what you would do, what you think the best solution would be