My fourth ticker tape quilt is finished!
This also means I've finished 17 quilts so far this year!
I actually finished quilting this one a few weeks ago, but tying and burying the thread ends took forever. Typically, I like to bury my ends as I go, and in retrospect, I plan to go back to that method from now on.
I had a couple of road trips coming up as I worked on the quilting, so I saved the thread ends for car time, which turned out to be inadequate. I also worked on a couple of the block thread ends in church. Yes, now I KIC (Knit in Church), CIC (Crochet in Church) and QIC, too.
Thread ends were still dangling, so I took it to work, hoping to finish at lunch. After three workdays, I started working on it during the train commute, too. After another day of that, I even worked on it on the bumpy bus!!!
As it finally came time for binding, I didn't notice until after attaching the binding that one edge of the quilt back had unraveled more than a quarter inch along part of one side. If the stitching hadn't been black on black, I would have removed the entire binding and just resquared the edge.
Instead, I unraveled just the portion of the quilt that was botched and sewed a piece of black scrap over the frayed edge, then reattached the binding and called it good. The final side of this quilt took about two hours, so I was more than elated to be done when it was done. I didn't want to sew again for at least a week.
Thankfully, a nice lavender/spearmint soak took care of my attitude.
The binding is pieced together with prepared black binding leftovers from other quilts I've finished in the last three or four years. Kind of funny to think I've made so many quilts with black binding, I had enough leftovers to finish another entire quilt binding!
I was trying to finish up all the little boy quilts I started last quarter so I wouldn't have to add them to this quarter's WIP challenge list. I'm very pleased I finished six WIP quilts last quarter, bringing my list down quite a bit. However, I added as many quilts as I finished, so the length of the list looks like I didn't accomplish much.
As of today, I've finished all six girls quilts for Christmas and one of the boy quilts for Christmas. I truly am making progress!
My goal this quarter is to finish two WIPs per month if I can, and to finish the rest of the Christmas quilts by Thanksgiving. I'd really, really like to get this list down beneath 20 and keep it under 20 from this point forward. Here's to the winter quarter challenge!
1. Hawaiian Punch
2. Leaf Me Alone
3. Welcome to the Jungle
4. Blue Floral Nostalgia
5. Lizard Toes
6. Hexie Booboo
7. Tickled Pink, the Sequel
8. Teal Shadows
9. Goodbye Hollyhock Road
10. Snowflake Strip Bar
11. Green Floral Batik Postage Stamps
12. Lavender Sunrise
13. Giant Dahlia
14. Showcase
15. Snowbike II
16. Autumn Splendor
17. Cool Edge of the Rainbow
18. Warmbow
19. Collared Lizard Wall Quilt
20. Citrus Whip
21. Time for Me to Fly
22. Venetian Squiggles
23. Scrappy Blue Block a Day
24. Little Boy Blue Batiks II
25. Lava Beds
26. Outer Space
27. Black in Scraps
28. Critters
29. Deep Blue
30. One Block Shy
Linking up with Busy Hands Quilts, Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.
