Pondering
While I was doing my walk this morning, I was pondering on the process for finishing up a scrappy quilt. It was pieced and quilted and now what to do for the binding. I was pretty sure I had some blue in my stashes that would work if only I would have enough. Ideally the binding should be cut on the length of the fabric rather than the width. The length of the weaving is stronger and when hands are tugging a quilt up close to their chin the binding takes quite a bit of a beating during the life span of the quilt.
When I found my way to the sewing studio, the first thing I did was pick out some fabric from the blue stashes. I chose a deep blue that would finish off the last of the baby blue border. The 
second thing I did was turn to my laptop here in the studio and check out several YouTube videos on bindings and hemming. I wanted to get the best advice on this binding as possible because . . . Dad’s all time favorite saying to us kids was: “You don’t have time to do it right and ‘By De God’, I don’t have the time for you to do it over.” Perhaps in German the “De” was another word, but out of Dad’s mouth it was “De.”
Here we are just about supper time and the project has been finished and I like it. It is truly a scrappy blue quilt from my stashes with many different prints in various tones of blues, blue blacks to indigo blues with just a splash of baby blue to tie it all together. I can never go wrong if I work with what I have on hand, keep Dad’s advice always close by and I gotta say . . . “Love those YouTube videos.”