Mon Oeuvre ~ en provence Mystery Quilt progress 13

"Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally ‘work.’ - Oxford Dictionary.)

The last time I blogged about my Mystery Quilt Progress, I was trying to decide how to quilt it - should I hand sew or machine stitch it?? 

In the past more often than not quilts were tied every so many inches with thread or yarn, but now quilts are generally quilted either by machine or hand-stitched with a pattern or design throughout it's surface.

 Here's an example of some Long arm work I found on this blog site. - 

I don't have a Long arm machine and I don't want to pay to have the quilting done, so I decided to machine stitch it myself on my own sewing machine. I did simple diagonal lines across the entire quilt.

The last two weeks I've been quilting the layers together. Here's the finished "quilted" pictures.

Top

Back

Then it was on to cutting the binding fabric and connecting all of the strips together so that they could be sewn to the top of the quilt. I had enough of the yellow from the quilt fabric so it became my binding 💛.

I'm glad I conquered my fear of doing binding. I did my quilt sample with a local quilt shop class and everything was covered in our weekly classes except the binding. The instructor said we were on our own and could finish it without the class. She did say that she would be available if we had any questions, but it took me almost a year to summon up the courage to try, then I found out that it wasn't hard at all. I scoured through many books and YouTube videos before I started though.

You can see that project HERE, but now back to "this" quilt. I got the binding all sewn to the top, I pinned some of the binding together to see how I liked it and to check out my mitered corners. So far so good. Only hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt is left to be done.