As I mentioned in my last post, I went to Ree's for the weekend. I went to help get this quilt finished up. I've been Ree's cheerleader and assistant on this project since she first told me she was thinking about making a quilt to go on MJ's daybed. Christmas 2007 we spent time with crayons and graph paper mapping out the block scheme, and putting in the request with Mom for the embroidered blocks in coordinating colors. Thanksgiving 2008 we worked on sewing the blocks together.
When Ree told me that she was hoping to finish it up before the baby is born I started thinking about finding a weekend to go out and help her. Thus my trip this past weekend.
We put the layers together, and tied the yarns. I think MJ liked that part--she was in charge of cutting the yarns. And then we pinned on the binding. Unfortunately, I'm a dummy and managed to leave the powercord and foot pedal for my sewing machine at home. And when it came to sewing on the binding, Ree's sewing machine just wasn't feeling up to the task. We did some brainstorming about what to do. The ideas included playing electrician and trying to convert the powercord for Ree's machine to work on mine, hand sewing, and using my machine by hand turning the wheel for the entire binding. In the end, I packed the quilt up in my trunk and brought it home to finish up the binding.
It's still not completely finished--the hand quilting in the embroidered blocks still needs to be done. But it's not too far off from being completely done.
