I have finally finished this bright quilt (47"' x 63") which I made up with the scraps of blend fabric that were donated to GLA. I added a batting and then a red broadcloth (cotton poly blend) backing. I wanted to be better at quilting a pattern so I decided to do squares on the pinwheels. I pinned everything very carefully and then started in on the squares. I should have done all the middle first and then moved to the sides. Needless to say, that with all the pushing and shoving that is required to sew a square in each pin wheel the results were not stellar. I started by unstitching half of them because there were large puckers in the quilt top. After taking that much out I decided to remove all the stitching and starting all over. Best decision! I stitched down the middle and then added two more lines of vertical stitching on each side which nicely secured my layers. Next, I trimmed my batting and backing and stitched the backing to self bind the edge of the quilt. After I had it all finished I decided to stitch up the squares I orginally had stitched which worked much better now with all the layers nicely stitched together. I had added halves to the edges and decided not to do those so I had to scrub off the pencil marks so it was washed again!! The pencil marks came out!!! I am happy with the final result but it was the loss of a full days work but a valuable lesson learned. That is how life goes!! Learning is sometimes time consuming!!! Therese
