Finished Halloween Quilt Binding

My 2014 Halloween Quilt binding is completed.  OK, I'm 2 days late but I'm so happy it's done.  Time to celebrate a finished quilt!    I decided to try and complete the binding by machine.  I used the Clover Wonder Clips on the quilt to wrap the binding to the back and hold until I would sew it.  I would give the clips a B+ on a review.  Here's some pro's and con's that I think of them.

CONS

• It takes a lot of them to hold the binding.  I placed one about ever 2" So you'll probably need to buy multiple sets.
• If you open them with too much force, the spring mechanism breaks or stretches so they don't hold anymore. 
• It's hard to move the quilt around with all those clips on it.  They get caught on things.
• I still had to go back and resew a couple areas where the binding wasn't caught on the back.  Good thing was that this was black binding on back backing.. you can't see the resew areas.
• Taking them off is a little slower than other type clips I've used.

PROS

• Amazon has them on sale for about $11 for 50 clips.
• They hold the binding a lot better in place than trying to sew on binding without them.
• Hey, 90% accuracy is great in my book when it comes to binding.
• Sewing went slow but it was a heck of a lot faster than hand sewing the binding to the back.
• It only took me maybe 20-25 minutes to finish a 60 x 80 quilt.
• I'll definitely use them again when I want to machine sew a binding on.

Here's the spacing I used on the clips

and here's the finished binding.

Now on to quilting the Christmas Present Quilt with a Christmas Present Panto I created.


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~*~Trish~*~

The Moda Flurry Present Quilt top by Kate Spain is finished!

Hello.  I was able to finish the Moda Flurry Quilt top by Kate Spain today.  I made a few changes on the bordering.  I did not place the outer 2" border since I modified the corner blocks.  Since I was not using the Flurry fabric, I did not have a cute snowflakes for the corners.  So, I was going to use the dark ornaments fabric as large corner block.  I just didn't like the way it looked and I was too lazy to add another 2" white border around the complete outside.  So, I took 4 of the small 2.5" blocks and surrounded them with the 2" white border strips.  I like how they turned out.  They float sorta like the color blocks separating the presents.

Now to decide if I want to try and quilt it or do I send it away to someone.  I still might have time to whip up another Halloween quilt!

Here's a closeup of the modified corners

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~*~Trish~*~

AccuQuilt Tumbler Flag Binding Completed

Well I finished it!!  5 days later than the intended holiday but completed just the same.  Now it will be available for future celebrations.  I opted to piece my binding to match the changing colors on the tumbler American Flag.  I am very happy with how it turned out.  There are a lot of seams on the binding since I used leftover tumbler blocks for the red/white stripe ends. 

Here's the finished flag

Also, here's a close up for some of the changing colors.

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~*~Trish~*~