Adventures in quilting - part 7 (daughter's quilt)

I am so freaking excited... I want to stay up all night sewing, but I can't!!! I put my layers together tonight. It looks fantastic!!! I need to pin on the binding still, which I'll do tomorrow night since my back is killing me from crawling around on the floor for the last hour and a half.

I realized I'm not as smart as I thought... I laid down the quilt top, then put the batting on top of that, and realized I had no way of knowing if the quilt top was flat before trimming the excess batting. Duh. I had to start over, putting the batting down first, then the quilt top, smoothed everything out with probably 75 pins, and trimmed the batting. Then my husband & I flipped it over and I repeated the process with the backing.

I am so close to being finished that I can TASTE IT.



Dang, I need a hoop in order to do the hand quilting. I don't have one. Crapola. Maybe I can sweet-talk my hubby into a trip to the fabric store on Saturday to pick up a hoop. I need more thread for my son's quilt anyway. I'm not smart enough to realize just how much thread a project this big will take!!!