Thursday, December 1, 2011

Stitch in the Ditch sucks the life from me!

So the quilted table runner is coming along, but stitching in the ditch is no fun.  Gives me a headache and I feel like my eyes are crossed.  Not only is it physically painful . . . it's hard work to sew straight.  Needless to say, I'm not happy with the results, but I guess it just takes practice.

Once that torture was over - I got to work on sewing on the binding.  I watched a tutorial to learn how to do that.  Perfect mitered corners my ass!  Then I started to wonder why I was putting myself through this.  I like making the squares, but so far that's about it.

Now I am struggling with the hand sewing on the binding.  This might take me the rest of my life and again I'm not happy with the way it looks.  I might wait until Mom can give me a lesson in real life.

This is the tutorial I used . . . and it was actually quite useful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buCKs-Fgvb4&list=FL8_XjW7KToBxuxnIc_BUNig&index=1&feature=plpp_video


1 comment:

  1. Wow, you are ambitious. Who's the runner for? Can I see it in January? Good luck with those stitches!

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