Sharon in the studio

Here I am hard at work in the studio! I should wrap up PB on Monday, Nov 17th. Now just need a dry day to deliver it!! Guess that's what those giant garbage bags were made for...

The Finishing Toches!

Whew! This part always takes longer that I imagine. And I am just a little anal about it. Here's the process of the last two days, which has taken about 7 hours thus far:

Square the quilt: This involves trimming off excess binding and making sure all the sides are straight. In this case, I also have to make sure the two small pieces are the same length and width and they are the same length as the large center piece.

Attach the backing: Cut white muslin and fusible web for each of the three pieces. Iron the muslin to remove wrinkles. Iron the fusible to the quilt, then layer the muslin on top of the fusible and iron to attach.

Make binding strips: Iron fusible to the binding material, then cut one inch strips. This will be added to the quilt by stitching 1/4" from the edge, then folding over and ironing to the back.

Attach top binding: Attach binding strip to the top of each piece only.

Add the second backing: This quilt has an additional backing sewn on three sides and left open on the top. The top of the second backing is not stitched, as I will slide a piece of foam ore into this opening and then close with Velcro closures. The foamcore will help the quilt hang nice and straight.

Add binding to the other three sides.

Insert foamcore and add hanging wire for each of the three pieces.

Project Blehm is ready to bind!

Well, here it is stitched and squared and ready to be backed and bound. And a few more details just beacuse I like details. :-)

Continuing on Project Blehm - Hand Stitching!

After a fabulous week in France and Italy I am back in the studio working on P.B. Doing more detail stitching and also added some hand-work today!

Taking shape, adding more detail

My goal is to spend at least one hour a day on Project Blehm so I can finish it up! I know they are anxious to have some color on the wall during the dark danish december. I am making progress and adding more and more quilted detail, including some couched yarn (see the big red stripe).

Now I'm having fun! This is like icing and decorating the cake - the foundation is done and now it's all creativity and sweetness! Mmmmmm......

Two more shots of Project Blehm

Two images - one quilted, one before quilting. Contrast and compare.

The Blehm Project Continues!

Back in the saddle for a couple of days between vacations! (Tough life, huh?) I do miss working on this, though, while I am away. All of the background in quilted and now I am filling in the details.