We know that quilting probably won’t save the world, but we hope that some distraction during this difficult time brings you a few minutes of respite.
Cindy is a life-long over achieving, perfection-seeking, bar-raising human being. I gave her a little border fabric and a sweaty, slightly tortured quilt top and she has turned it into a 2-bordered, mitred-cornered (not to mention straight) masterpiece. She says it’s in the mail and on it’s way to NY. Yippee!
Meanwhile, while I wait and as I type this, our mother is in the next room ironing the backing in preparation for its arrival. My huge, crowd-sourced postage stamp quilt will be at Ms. G’s for quilting by mid-week. I am so excited!
Now let’s focus for a minute on something that’s not red: buttercups are in bloom on the farm.
Stay safe and well, quilting buds.
First things first. I squared off the quilt because all those postage stamps made this top a little, shall we say, UNEVEN. Proof of my effort was this lovely pile of tangled redness. 
Next, I went on a fabric hunt. The ladies at the quilt shop suggested adding a thin, white inner border before adding the red outer border.
I cut the white border at 2 inches and the red border at 6 inches but I think the white border is too wide next to the postage stamps. I’ll need to do a bit of un-sewing to re-cut the white border to 1.0-1.5 inches.
Since I didn’t have any baby charm packs on hand, I raided my stash and pulled out some bright scraps for a baby boy. A large piece of left over black and white polka dot flannel was the perfect backing.
Of course I had to add some Ohio State Buckeye fabric, just to be sure this little one learns about his Buckeye roots early in life! Brutus Buckeye, the Ohio State mascot, is peaking just above the seam.
Here’s the full view of a very fast and fun project!
Baby girl quilt to follow on Thursday! Both couples want to be surprised and I’m hedging my bets, hoping for one boy and one girl. Wish me luck on this bet!