First Round (ding)

Ta-Da!  Here is the first round border on my Medallion project.  I was keeping it under wraps so I wouldn't influence the sew along, but now that they have a star border theme, I can share mine.

Here it is in the planning stage.  I tell you it took many, many calculations to get that accommodating strip the right size to fit the already pieced stars.

I had this one awkward area that kept bugging me.  Can you spot it in the photo above?

Here it is

So I un-stitched it.  Painful when it is hand sewn.

and here it is - so much better to me.  What do you think?  Would you have changed it?

Whew - that was a close one.  I always say to students "if you don't like it now, you won't like it later."

I just finished this book and I literally could not put it down!

In in, Anderson mentions a "room of quilts" that his mother created at their NYC home.  I found these photos on-line.  Incredible!

There are quilts on the ceiling and floor~   amazing!

I have stepped up my hand quilting to complete my Alice Payne quilt.  Woohoo - on to the borders.

I really do love this fan in the corner to honor Alice's fan border quilting.

xo