Lots to Smile About
Sometimes my eyes are bigger than my abilities. I fell in love with a quilt pattern that led to finding wonderful flannel fabrics in a quilt shop in Bird Island. Hmm. The snow was flying in January and it seemed like the perfect project. Dennis is never satisfied with the heft of blankets. I was sure this would fill the bill. It is surprising how 
much weight the threads add to the quilt top. I chose a flannel for the backing and a poly batting. I had to wait until July for Sharon to long arm the quilt. I got it home this week and then I bit myself in the butt. I don’t like to have UFOs, unfinished objects, in my sewing studio. Today threatened rain off and on and I went in the sewing studio to work on cutting, ironing and sewing on binding. Let’s get this done! It is supper and I am calling it a day. I have a lot to smile about as there is one step left to finish 
this winter project and that is sewing down the binding on the right side of the quilt. In a perfect world the binding should be sewn on by hand . . . meaning lots of tiny stitches each pulled through one at a time. My hands can no longer do the hand sewing, thus it is under the needle of the sewing machine. There is no way I could sleep under anything this heavy. Dennis will no doubt sneak the polar fleece blanket either under this quilt or over it. I don’t mind. I made it for Dennis and how he chooses to use it is up to him. I am smiling as I am so close to putting this mound of flannel to bed . . . literally. I will be smiling right up to bedtime.