The options given to finish were to either frame the piece under glass----not for me---or to do an overlay of tulle and stitch closely all over to hold everything down. Instead, I created a third option. I placed batting behind the piece and free motion stitched around all the edges, using a straight stitch. After I get the border on I will figure out how to quilt it. I plan on a border using one, or maybe two of the fabrics shown here. I think my first choice is the gold fabric, but I also like the purple. Since it's an art project maybe I can just use both? Anyway, the technique is easy and fun to do, a good way to use up small bit of fused fabric scraps, but I think the next time I need to actually plan the design and focal point before I jump in.
I was stitching on a new "use up the scraps" project last night, and the Featherweight started behaving badly. The foot pedal wasn't making contact inside and it just would not go. Russ performed a bit of surgery on it by adjusting the contacts inside. A good cleaning and oiling and she was humming along once again. Got to love that man!
Happy stitching,
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Hi Debbie,it looks great. How about if you use one of the borders pieces as an accent strip? Cut it about 3/4 - 7/8", maybe even smaller, press in half wrong sides together. Place that onto the quilt with raw edges even, and the border right sides to it and stitch. That will give you both fabrics in the border. In my mind I'm picturing the gold as the accent, but you could go either way. I just did a quilt that way, and it looks nice. The quilt had a mitered border.
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