I finished my crazy patchwork mini-quilt today. It’s 25 cm square and I actually did put a binding on. When I come to think about it I believe this is the first piece from the C&G’s course that I have actually “finished”. I’ve been treating everything as samples up to now and haven’t bothered to complete them with batting and binding. Although there are some pieces that I feel are good enough to warrant the treatment. Myrna would not be pleased with me.
But this time I felt that it was time to go the whole hog and put a binding on too. I can’t remember the last time I actually made a whole quilt, whatever the size. But before binding it there were a few other things to do. I sewed down all the patches with different threads and embroidery stitches on my machine. Sometimes it’s a bit tricky to judge when to stop to turn a corner, the needle is jumping around all over the place. I also added some of the sheer fabric as patches over the rest using gold thread to sew them down. They added a bit of interest where there was just plain coloured fabric. Then I did a bit of hand embroidery and added a few sequins sewn down with beads in one corner.
So here it is:
And here’s a detail to show some of the hand embroidery. I tried out doing chain stitch with two colours of thread. Once you get the hang of it, it’s quite easy. You can’t really see it on the photo on the blog 
It’s the brown and yellow stitching in the left hand corner. I added some straight stitches too.
