FSNI Report

Do you remember this quilt?  It's my version of Bonnie Hunter's Smoky Mountain Stars.

One of Bonnie's tips is to double sew the corner squares so you have little HSTs instead of a bunch of triangles.  I decided to give it a whirl...

Since then, these HSTs have been sitting in a basket... waiting patiently.  Took over a year before I decided it was time....

First, came a lot of pressing open of the HSTs...  then sewing two together...

....and more pressing...

...and some more sewing...

...more pressing followed by more sewing!

 A tube of lip balm for comparison

Still have a way to go... but I'm getting there!

To see what other FNSI-ers got accomplished last night, be sure to stop by Handmade for Heidi and check out all the links!

Smoky Mtn Stars: Finished!

Yesterday, I finished binding the Smoky Mountain Stars quilt.

I didn't have enough of the blue plaids left to make binding so I used a Moda Bella solid:  American Blue.

Debbie of Angel Scraps Quilting recommended a machine-sewn binding tutorial by Prudent Baby... and I decided to try it.

 

It worked very well and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! This quilt is going to one of my nephews and may see hard use, I thought this would be better than binding that is hand-sewn down.

Photo courtesy of HDK Photography

David, the recipient-to-be of the Smoky Mtn Stars quilt, is on the right and is shown with his younger brother and their mother...  my sister Carol.   As a frame of reference, Carol is 5'10" tall.   

David's "lap quilt" is a bit larger than a typical lap quilt.