Tis the season to be all about Christmas, but I am determined to finish Bats and Boos before the new year. I really don’t want to carry this project over.
It is slow going, since I am too tired after the day job to want to spend time on this.
Nevertheless, progress is happening. Last time that I shared, Bats and Boos had been pin basted.
Let the quilting begin!
Now that the main features are quilted, I am on to the borders!
Bats and Boos, Bow Tie Leader/Enders and Betty Boop Updates
Quilt On!
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Betty Boop continues to languish in the hospital awaiting her new part (must still be on a cargo ship somewhere). It has been 3 months now.
I miss her.
Meantime, I do have a Juki that I can use to machine quilt (straight stitch only). So some progress is happening.
Bats and Boos is now pin-basted and waiting for machine quilting.
Bow Ties is machine quilted with a Baptist Fan variation. The binding is made, but not sewn to the quilt yet.
Quilt On!
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Here is where I was when I last posted about Bats and Boos:
I needed to make four star pumpkin blocks:
And set all of the blocks together:
One of those pumpkin star blocks is not like the other (I was not happy when Hubby pointed that out to me). Jack the Ripper helped me to fix that.
My Bats and Boos somehow came out bigger than the pattern said that it should. I guess my seam allowance isn’t the same as everybody else’s. So…I added a spacer border to make my personal math calculations work for the next border (which is very much influenced by Pat Sloan).
How come I don’t see such obvious mistakes until I have sewn it all together and I am looking through the camera (even then it is sometimes questionable that I will notice)!
What would I do with my best buddy Jack?
I don’t intend to add another border, and I have the backing pieced. The frankenbatt is pieced as well. I won’t be quilting until Betty Boop comes home from the hospital. I assume her much needed part is somewhere offshore on a cargo ship.
Quilt On!
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