WIP's Wednesday

 Hi Friends!  Yesterday while using my sewing machine to fill the bobbins for my quilter, I realized I had not shared the progress of my Old Town Mystery quilt blocks.

The plan is to finish piecing this quilt top as soon as the Bow-Tie quilt is finished.  

Piecing these blocks a slow process due to the petting and admiring each block and the many different background fabrics.

As you all know I like scrappy quilts, but most of the time I use a consistent background fabric...white.

The low volume adds so much interest to the quilt but doesn't take away from the beauty of the block.

Every time I make a super scrappy quilt like this one, I tell myself I should make every quilt with a scrappy low volume background.

When it comes time to cut for the next quilt reality kicks in...sigh...it takes much longer to cut a gazillion different prints.  Laziness?  I prefer more positive words like...eager to sew or too excited for slow progress.   

Anyway...I shared each block individually because I'm pretty sure many of you are like me and it will make you smile to see the many different fabrics.

  

Believe it or not and I know you do believe it because I do this all the time.  I set an easy goal and fail to achieve it.  I'm beginning to think it's my superpower.  My Monday plan was to have the quilt off the frame by Monday night.

The Bow-Tie quilt is still on the frame.  

Today's plan... I'm staying in my jammies. No cooking, no cleaning.  And due to the weather, no dog walking.  This quilt will be off the quilt frame today, no if's and's or buts!  

Well for now, I'm pretty sure...HAHA!

Only two more rows of Bow-Ties to quilt.   The edge of my quilt has been marked with blue lines to remind me not to quilt in the binding area.  Some longarm quilters will add binding to the quilt before taking it off the quilt frame.  I prefer to do it by sewing machine.  The less time I spend at the quilt frame the better.

I'll be doing a true quarter inch binding which means a quarter inch on the front and on the back. Instead of cutting the binding strips 2.25" or 2.50" wide, they will be cut 1.5" or 1.75".  Scraps of fabric will be used to test which width works best for this quilt's thickness.  Try saying that three times fast...which width works... HAHA!

On Monday's blogpost I was asked what fabric will be used to bind this quilt.  Good question, but I don't have a good answer because I haven't decided.  It's going to be a surprise for both you and me.  After the quilt is off the frame, I'll start pulling different fabrics, lay them next to the quilt to see which one I like best.

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