The Marvel Lap Quilt has borders! At long last! Happy Dance!!! Okay, for some this may seem a bit of an overreaction - but I REALLY dislike the process of sewing on borders. Too many opportunities for things to go wrong like:
- Sewing it in the wrong direction (check - nothing like getting 2/3s done and figuring out that you've pinned it on upside down as evidenced by the mitered seam not facing up)
- Measuring incorrectly (check - fortunately that was easily repaired)
- Running out of bobbin thread (actually avoided this one)
- Uneven seam allowance (by the 8th strip, that problem was solved)
But I soldiered on. Now the quilt goes in the pile of "to be quilted." I think I want to do a Baptist Fan motif across it, just need to decide on thread color, and how I want to mark it.
Between starting and stopping, I watched/listened to most of Thor, Thor the Dark World, and Thor Raganarok while preparing and stitching the borders.
8 comments:
What a colourful quilt for a comic lover!
I was just about to say what Marly did. And I understand about the borders. I always dread that part.
Your borders and marvel quilt is amazing! I sure get the procrastination part. . .hard, uncomfortable, unliked tasks are easy for me to delay. I too am doing the happy dance with you!
It is a cool quilt. I understand what you feel about borders.
Congrats Kristen!
Such a fun quilt! I dislike borders, also. In fact, the last quilt that I added borders to, I had to rip out. The ripped out border is sitting un-ironed to be used as scraps and a new border has still not been added onto the quilt. Congratulations on your finish and thank you for stopping at my blog!
Congrats on your finish! What is a fun quilt with the Marvel comics print. Borders - seems they should go on in a snap. After all they are just long strips of fabric. But they always take a long time!
Congratulations on finishing you top. Borders always take longer than I expect them to but I actually like being at that stage because it usually marks a milestone.
Happy dance! Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and congrats on your finish!
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