I finished the polyester quilt refurbishment. It took me about 6 hours to quilt the darn thing. It was super thick and I didn't want to break a lot of needles doing this one so I took it slow. I finally figured out that I would do better to use my dual feed foot instead of the flimsy walking foot quilting this baby. So with about 5 rows left to quilt I changed my presser foot and the last little bit of quilting went a lot more smoothly. I followed the seams and did a grid quilting. I stayed away from the puffy centers of the string blocks. I didn't want to crush those pretty polyester blocks. I also didn't square this quilt up when I trimmed it for binding. Some of the rows ends were quite wonky, but I wanted to keep as much of the quilt top as I could so there is one bit that is seriously curved. This whole project took me about 19 hours to complete over the last 2 1/2 weeks. The quilt measures about 52" x 50". Here's a picture of the front and the back.
After I finished the quilt top I made my daughter a couple of items. One was a padded tablet sleeve with button closures and the other is this cute, cute drawstring pouch using the tutorial
here. I really like this tutorial and the pouch is a nice big size. Perfect to carry the cords and accessories for a tablet. I think I'll be making a couple of these for me.
