My colour burst quilt is finished and up in the gallery. It has its own name now, which is Farbenfroh. If you want to know what that means you must go to the gallery and find out!
I decided in the end to do a turned over finish to the quilt and not put on an extra binding. I like the wider frame to the top and I didn’t have enough fabric to make a wider binding. Also I like the somewhat wobbly sided look - I hadn’t squared up the quilt top before making up the sandwich. And it was certainly too much of a challenge to do so once everything was quilted together. The sort of recipe for disaster that is best avoided. I would have managed to slice into the backing at some point and put paid to the idea of folding over the excess backing to bind the quilt

I finished the quilting and beading on my colour burst quilt yesterday. I even got out the monofilament nylon thread again for the first time in ages. There were too many large areas where the sandwich wasn’t sewn together and after trying some quilting with sewing thread I went back to the invisible thread as I really only wanted the quilting but not the visibility on the quilt top. I am quite pleased with the results:

Now I have to decide how to finish off the edge. I am toying with the idea of just folding over the extra backing and sewing it down on the front. If I do a traditional binding I would use the same material as the backing as I think the colour gives a good border to the quilt. I shall pin the backing down on the front and see what I feel before making a decision.

Well I finally managed to persuade the photographer to take a photo of my knitting. This is the progress to date:

Things were going well until I came to the armholes. I have knitted the shaping for the armholes at least twice now. It was tricky getting the correct number of stitches and keeping the pattern going correctly.
But I usually knit everything about twice so things are progressing nicely. In fact Sqeze keeps telling me to slow down or I’ll be finished before Christmas - the plan was to knit while back in the UK. There’s plenty more wool out there in the shops though!

Sometimes the knitting twice is on purpose - I often unravel something I don’t wear any more and reknit it as something else. One lot of wool is onto its third reincarnation currently as a sloppy, comfy pullover