2 Binding Finshes

After yesterdays WIP post Flying Blind asked me how did I have a half bound mug rug, after all they are small projects! My only come back is that I'm too lazy to finish the binding as this is one of my least favourite quilting jobs...

So this is for you FB

Finished binding on both the Hungry Caterpillar quilt and the Union Jack Mugrug! And actually it took no time or trouble at all to get done!

Thanks for spurring me into action!

I did it! & I got One!

I'm very excited about two things and just had to share!

No 1 - I did it!
I bit the bullet and had a go at hand sewn binding on my pot holder/oven mitt.

Sorry for the poor picture quality but it was dark when I took it!

It's not quite finished yet but I'm really pleased with how it's going, and I'm also making one in the strawberry fabric in the corner of the picture.
The tutorial for this pot holder/oven mitt can be found at Oh, Fransson.

I'm linking up with Lily's Quilts: It's Fresh Sewing Day Today

And No 2
I got an ORLA KIELY bag from TESCO - YAY!

These lovely pear design jute bags are being sold through Tesco with money from each sale going to the Clic Sargent charity - caring for children and young people with cancer in the home. Advertised as 'only in larger stores' I wasn't sure we'd get them in my local shop but yesterday there they were! I only had enough money for one yesterday, but I'm definately going back to try and get some more, I know a few people who would LOVE one!

P.S. There's also another vintage sheet FQ giveaway going on over at The Vintage Sheet Blog.

One Thing, One Week Challenge #7

I've been procrastinating... starting too many new projects and not finishing any! I love the piecing but am intimidated by the quilting and binding parts, so I linked up with Amy's One Thing, One Week Challenge to prompt me to get into gear. If you post your project, then a week later post your finished work you get entered into a giveaway... well you know how much I love giveaways!

Remember the placemats I was playing with made from blue and white half sqaure triangles?

Well my challenge was to quilt and bind at least one of them, and here's the pinwheels one all finished. Although the binding is atrocious! It's machine done and the stitch does not go in the ditch by any stretch of the imagination, so I may have to unpick and start again, but for now I'm using it as it is!

I just can't hand sew at all. To write, I'm left handed but my brain cannot compute certain things in the left hand so I use scissors, rotary cutter, knife and fork, mouse etc all with the right hand but sewing just doesn't seem to happen in any hand at all!!! So no hand binding for me at this stage.

For the next placemat, chevrons, I'm trying a different binding method where you cut your backing fabric bigger than you need, do the quilting, then fold the backing fabric over and bind that to the front of your project. Very handy for small projects like mug rugs and placemats apparently! I thought I had saved the page to refer to, but now I'm looking for it for a link and I can't find it...DOH! I remembered it was from one of the March Mug Rug Madness tutorials, see Knitty Bitties. How hard can it be right?

Wish me luck!