WIPs With Friends; The Delayed Version (and giveaway)

I totally spaced that yesterday was Wednesday!  

What with the holiday and farm sitting I just completely forgot about it. 

 I am so sorry my friends.  

Additionally, someone dressed me down in a comment left on my last post and I want to address this.  I did not put the pattern designer for the amazing Watercolor Seahorse quilt in my initial post. 

 I was at work and rushed and just could not remember the name of the designer. 

 I have added it and included a link to her website where 

you can purchase your very own copy of her pattern.  

The design is by Summer Crafter and you can find the 

Watercolor Seahorses pattern in her shop right here.  

I am very sorry, I am usually very good about those things as I think they are important.  

I just wanted to get that out of the way and be up front. 

 I am only human and sometimes I just forget things.  

Now on to what I have been working on.  

Speaking of forgetting things, I almost forgot to make my bee blocks for this month!  

This pattern is called Magic 8 Ball and can be found here at Blossom Heart Quilts.  

I love how they turned out.  

These would make a great charity quilt too.  

The secondary pattern is amazing.

I got my Birdie Stitches quilt back a bit ago and decided that I needed to put the binding on.

I had it all made but needed to sew it on.

I got it all stitched on, but not hand sewn down just yet.

Pretty view as I stitched!

Darla Hall did an amazing job with the custom quilting on this!

It was fun to revisit each block as I stitched the binding down.  

My friend from IG loved my vintage sheet stripe binding and 

she has a quilt made using the same Dream On fabric.  

She thought it would be perfect for her quilt so I sent her the rest of what I had and 

I hope that will make her day!

Speaking of binding, the picnic quilt should be showing up soon.  

It will need binding too. 

 I love that the front is so much solid but the back is a light coral.

  For me that is a binding dilema.  

I didn't want the dark on the back or the light on the front.

Solution?  

Make a two sided binding of course!  

You can find the tutorial to make your own right here on my blog if you want to try it.  

It is not difficult and

it really makes a difference for quilts where one color is not going to work for both sides of the quilt.

This is how mine turned out.

All set and ready for when I receive the quilt back.

Now what have you been working on?  

Please link up using the blue linky tool.

If we can get 10 people to link up I will have a little giveaway!

~XOP~

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Two Color Binding Tutorial

My friends on IG have asked me to show them how I did a two color binding. 

 I Googled it and there are several good tutorials out there on the web. 

 I will list a few here:

Quilting Queen

The Pattern Basket

By Annie.com

Julianna's Journey

Auntie Nicole's Corner

They are all good ones.  

Here is what my binding turned out like.

I will run through how I did this and

 if you want to see it another way please visit the other tutorials I listed above!  

This idea is not original to me and I learned from the Quiltin Queen.

I will show you how I did it and 

this will make it easier for me to find it if I want to do it again in the future too!

I am going to assume you already know how to make regular double fold binding 

so no need to go into all that.  

Choose your fabrics for your binding.  I used the blue for the front and yellow for the back.

Cut your binding strips for the back side 1 7/8".  

Cut enough of them to go all the way around your quilt and join them as you usually do.

 Cut your binding strips for the front 1" wide.  

Cut enough of them to go all the way around your quilt and join them as you usually do.

Once you have all your strips joined to form one really long strip of each color then you need to sew those strips together like this.

I trimmed the end off of the place where I would begin.

I pressed to the dark side of the binding.

My binding width was 2 3/8" at this point when I measured it.

Just as you would for regular double fold binding you will 

press your strip wrong sides together to form your double fold binding.

Place the binding as you usually do with the raw edges of the binding to the raw edges of the quilt.  

Make sure that the front color (in my case the navy) is right sides to the front of the quilt.  

What you will see when you do this is just the back side of the binding. 

I was skeptical that this was going to work but it does. 

 Attach the binding using 1/4" seam and using your walking foot.

After it is attached you can see when I push it back, as if to turn it to the back, 

the navy really is on the front.  

I usually press the binding away from the quilt at this point. 

 It seems to make things easier when I turn the binding to the back for the hand stitching part.

I was shocked to find that it really did work and 

the binding was actually really easy to prepare, attach and turn.  

Will I do this for every quilt?

 Probably not, but there are rare occasions when this will be the perfect way to bind a quilt.  

Like it was for this quilt!

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and would love to hear if you give it a try!  

~XOP~