I’ve had an unexpected health change. I’m well enough to sew a bit but not at home. My elves brought me the project and a portable machine and all the notions I need. This was actually to be part of a toddler’s Christmas which has been delayed, so it’s right on time.
I squared up the flannel first. I did a combination of smoothing it out, folding this way and that, and I’m satisfied it’s as square as if I used my whole work table. I knew the fleece was cut squarely at the store.
To find the width was no issue with the flannel, that’s obvious. With the fleece I used a corner and brought the two sides together until I could tell which was shorter. I folded the flannel in half-width and the fleece the same, and pinned them together temporarily. I cut the edges of the fleece as straight as I could, actually following the poke holes of the selvage. That will be the edge of the self binding so it won’t need to be folded under again.
I decided on a 2-inch border. I stitched it down with a wobble stitch all around, mitering the corners. My plan was to stitch the field of the quilt with a right-angle spiral, just to tack the layers together. It should have been an easy finish at that point but I managed to break a needle without having a backup. I sent it along and the boy’s mom will finish for him what I could not.
This quilt, having no piecing and small blocks and seams, worked out very well for eyeballing measurements and getting things close without having to be precise.
Quilt in Progress 