I made a pin trading fabric board to attach to our front door at the Disney resort where we will be staying later this year. I did the primitive embroidery and drawing on it. My dear daughter bought some pins from Amazon to put on it. It should be a fun addition to our time at Disney.
I machined sewed the binding on last Friday and that project is done. So glad. I'm thrilled it's finished and I'm thrilled with the finished product. I will be posting pictures in August after it is gifted.
I like to keep track of how long projects take for some reason so I'm figuring this quilt took about 60 hours. The most involved part was making the hsts for the stars. It took awhile to make over 500 of them. Between cutting, sewing, pressing and trimming all of them it was daunting. All the effort was worth it. The quilt looks great.
Moving on to make some Mickey ears for our Disney trip later this year and a couple of Christmas decorations. I pulled out my Vintage Christmas Lori Holt book to make the train block. I may make another if I have time before Christmas.
I managed to get all the stars put together last week. I cut the coordinating fabric for the alternating squares and I put the rows together on Saturday night. The rows were sewn into a top on Sunday and I worked on getting the backing fabric washed and dried. I put the rows of stars for the back together and I sewed the the row of stars to two pieces of backing fabric and the back was done. Yesterday I sandwiched the quilt and got a quarter of the quilting done. I should have the quilting done by Wednesday. I promise to share pictures of the quilt after it is gifted.
I'm very happy with how quickly it all came together. When I was cutting up 504 half square triangles, pressing and trimming I wasn't sure how this was all going to get done because I had left it so long.
Here is a picture of all my stars after I pressed the seams. There are 48 or 49 here.
