My quilting this week involves binding. Lots of binding. We have a Quilts of Valor presentation this weekend and we are putting finishing touches on quilts. We had a sewing day this weekend to get a lot done. My machine quits after sewing for 4 hours. I’m not sure why. I’ll be sewing along and all of a sudden the tension goes totally loose. I haven’t changed anything and there is no fixing it. You have to shut down the machine and start again tomorrow. This isn’t a fancy machine with lots of computers to get confused either. It is just tempermental.
I think this is the scariest thing we do as quilters, especially with these red, white, and blue quilts. This one turned out ok.
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The Navy anchor quilt is on its second go round in the dryer. Then I just have to do a final go over for threads.
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I have 1 and a half more bindings to put on.
I picked up my hand sewing again after a few weeks off.
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I have 3 more seams to sew and I have the first two rows together.
I met an amazing lady this week. This is Ruth.
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Ruth is 94 years old. She’s made over 500 quilts in her life. She has Parkinson’s Disease and is prone to falling. She figured that if she had to sit a lot then she might as well sit at her sewing machine. She heard about Quilts of Valor last year and made 12 tops for a local event. Since then she’s kept sewing. She gave me 35 tops that she’s made since January.
Here’s a sample of what she made.
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Wonderful quilts