A finish on Friday

It was binding time when I sat down to join in with Cheryll and friends for Friday Night with Friends last night.

Nice to be at the binding stage as this quilt as been a long time in the making. It was glaring at me from my quilting chair saying "Pick Me, Pick Me" when I was feeling a little lost and trying to decide where to start next.
It's my Hannah and Harrington quilt started in a 2013 quiltalong by Michelle of The Raspberry Rabbits.

Although I set it as an April finishing goal, I stalled on it because I needed to do a foot conversion.

Recently though, I took a deep breath, watched the necessary video and changed my foot...the older machines had this foot on the left (photo above) which screws into the machine and stays there. Now my machine has a different shank and I can screw a foot off it and change over to a different one.

I was able to attach this Glide foot which glides around the wool appliques without catching and snagging on them. 

That means I've had a fun time doing some quilting lately. I didn't want anything too dense so worked hard to make sure my motifs didn't get too small - I do have a tendency to get really small. I quilted randomly, sort of feathery and spirally, making it up as I went, and really enjoyed it!

I had already quilted the small squares (a simple vine) and done a feather around the outside border AND stitched in the ditch of the applique blocks so, once I got into it all, it didn't take me too long to complete. (Insert happy dance here.)

Last night I walked into the living room at just the right time, as the setting sun was hitting the draped quilt (awaiting the rest of its binding) at the right angle —

Cool huh?!

Thanks to the company of everyone at FNwF I was able to finish stitching the binding down. This morning I took the quilt out for a photo shoot.

I fed calves in this spot recently - the paddock has an old concrete bunker in it and I wondered if it would make a good spot for quilt photography.

It wasn't quite high enough to show the whole quilt on the side with the sun behind me —

On the other side, in the shade with glare poking in at the side, there was enough height but no way to hang the quilt —

There was one old bolt sticking up which I tied baling twine to so that I could peg the quilt up. I improvised with the buggy and tied the twine to that to keep it taut!

The dogs enjoyed the outing!

Third side. Still not tall enough and nothing to tie my baling twine to!

Anyway, it was a lovely day and it was nice to be out and about even if my photoshoot wasn't entirely successful!

The closeup below shows the border quilting —

But it's easier to see what I did on the backside of the quilt — 

Thanks Cheryll for hosting Friday Night with Friends. Visit Cheryll and the others who joined in by clicking *here*.

'til next time,
happy stitches,