More Stashbusting

Some of my readers may remember when I first blogged about this quilt (read about it here) about six weeks ago. It's now quilted, bound, and labeled and will be donated to my guild's latest outreach project -- our local foster child program.

The back is all from my stash...

And my favorite part is the bias striped binding...

My only complaint about striped binding is that it can be very difficult to find a thread that will match all the colors, so some of the stitches disappear better than others. This closeup also gives you a view of how I've been attaching labels to these charity quilts. It's just a five-inch square of fabric, folded in half, and then sewn into the binding on the raw edges. I usually just fuse the folded edge to the backing, but I suppose I could easily hand-sew that part, too.

This is another 4 1/2 yards of fabric used up in 2013 from my stash!

Almost There

The hanging sleeves are finished, and now I'm working on the labels for my exhibit entries. Here's a shot of one of them (for this quilt here) -- taken before sewing it down. I just cut out a circle with my GO cutter, and then using a method explained here, added the label to the back of the quilt. The finished outside edge of the circle will get hand-stitched down. Easy-peasy.