This week was mostly spent quilting the Christmas picnic rug, while I watched YouTube and caught up on Paramount, Stan and Netflix. I really don't mind half of my sewing room being converted to a 'cinema room'. I didn't have a lot of time in the sewing room as I had computer issues that had to be addressed.
I did finish one of the focus cutting sew along blocks - block 7, D for dog.
The rest of the time was quilting. I sandwiched the quilt last week and this week I took the fact that this was for us, to practice my quilting stitches.
I found it easy to think of quilting stitches for some of the blocks, but some were hard, and I ended up doing different patterns within the one block - that's fine, it's for us. I did have fun and think I am getting better at the quilting part. The label block I made using some Christmas embroidery that I had sitting in a box for a few years. Perfect for this project.
I started with the centre block and quilted around the eight other blocks leaving me with the outer edge to quilt. I had planned on making binding for the edge, however, when I finished quilting I found that there was enough of the backing fabric to fold over as the binding, so that's what I did.
I am very happy with finished quilt, now to wait until December to use it.