1. Sewing on point is harder than it looks, and far more important than people give it credit for. Next quilt will be more on point and I will be more stringent about it.
2. Block order should never be messed up. Sew the blocks together all in a day. Spreading it out any further than an hour or so is a bad idea, especially with a cat who loves to sit on blocks in the house.
3. Binding isn't as hard as it looks. To cut binding on the bias in a logical way, begin by cutting one strip of binding on a 45 degree angle on a straight bit of a fabric. Turn this so that the bias cut is now on one of the straight measures on your cutting pad, fold, and proceed to cut your binding as though it were straight grain fabric.
4. Never machine quilt something bigger than this lap quilt.
5. Reread or ask Jolee about backing one more time. I'm pretty sure I did it "wrong" because I feel like I wasted a lot of fabric. On the plus side I can now bind Chris' potholder.
I learned a lot more but most of it isn't quantifiable. So now, onto pictures!
This is the whole quilt. I used a basic grid except for in some locations
This is some of the close quilting, plus the binding. I used a light blue thread to quilt the actual quilt, which shows up really nicely against the white.
And this is the quilt against the backing. Just to show a little contrast. And blurry, sorry.
Operation one is a success! Onto the next quilt!
