I finished the quilting on the Zen quilt last night, and tonight I put the binding strip on, so all the machine work is done on Zen, with only hand-stitching the binding strip down on the back remaining. So now two of the five Christmas quilts are to the binding stage. I have two more at the machine quilting stage (Arcadia #1 and Amish Steps #1), but now I have to figure out which one is next up, but I think it will be Arcadia #1.
I also wanted to post here to remind myself where the good diagram is that I use to figure out how to join the beginning and ending of the binding strip. That diagram is in Eileen Wright's Twist-and-Turn Bargello Quilts, but I have modified her procedure just a little bit. I had intended to enumerate the steps to my method, but the what I really need to do is illustrate the steps with pictures or perhaps post a video. We'll see.
Okay, time to run the pups out one last time & hit the sack. I'm exhausted but quite satisfied. Oh, and with two of the five quilts nearly "in the bag", I'm starting to breathe a little easier about Christmas deadlines.
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