Day Four :)

I finally decided to finish off the quilt top I started. I added a border around the whole thing then laid it out on my kitchen floor as I have no other space large enough to pin. As you can see I gave myself plenty of fabric around the edges. The backing was taped down by the way, but I'd removed it before taking this picture. 

So now for the moment of truth... Time to quilt. I stitched across the middle first, then I stitched across every two inches for the entire length.

I know this batting could have gone wider between, and I should have only done every 6 inches to enclose the main blocks, but live and learn. I like how it turned out. 

And the back:

It's a bit crinkled but at least there are no creases or overlaps, so I'm quite happy with the whole basting process.

The next stage was to attach the binding. I've decided to machine bind because I'm not a fan of hand sewing, so I started by sewing the binding onto the back. 

I'm going to have to play around with the seam allowance for binding because I feel like 1/4" was not enough. 

My corners all turned out really well thanks to using this mitred corner trick. 

And although I knew my binding would be close to the right length, I had no idea just how close it would be!

And with that, there was just one thing left to do to finish the quilt; wrap the binding to the front and see it down. This was a fairly straight forward process and was super quick as well!

And here it is, my first ever quilt completed 100% by me. I think it took me about 15 hours in total to make this. 

I loved making it and I already have material and a plan for my next project!