This is a follow up to Monday’s post Quilters’ Playdate: It’s All About Me! about getting the English Paper Piecing (EPP) hexagon flower quilt I’ve been working on for 10 years machine quilted.
Later in the day on Friday, my friend J texted me that she and her longarm quilting machine had finished quilting my quilt and I could come and unloaded it off of the longarm machine with her:
Here it is freshly unloaded (if only you could hear me giggling in the background as I gleefully helped her unloaded it):
Here is what the back looks like:
And here is the trimmed quilt (awesome J helped me trim the extra batting off on the long tables in her studio):
I’ve already started putting the facing on it. I am going to do a “facing” instead of a binding, like I would do for an art quilt because they denim is too thick to deal with trying to bind it.
If you’ve never heard about doing a “facing finish” on a quilt, here is a video about it:
I will share one more post of this quilt (because you all must be sick of it by now, ha!) when I finish the facing and then hang the quilt!
But right now I am feeling very:
