I actually finished most of this earlier in the month. My method of quilting it was to attach the flimsy to the center of the roughly cut batting by folding it in half, then in half and lining up the center point. I used glue basting and heat-set before I used a serpentine stitch over all of the block-joining seams in a vertical + horizontal grid.Then I glue basted the back to this partially quilted bit and attached the long-side of the borders and did more serpentine stitching, spaced out with masking tape. These lines are mostly straight, but since it is black thread on black fabric, it looks great! Then I attached the last two border parts and quilted them the same way.
I considered my binding options and went with one that would blend in. I decided to practice Rachel's zigzag method.It was not easy for me because I do not think I measured out 3/8" correctly... So I really had to pull some spots tight to get it to line up and did you know pins are sharp?
Last part was to do some "hand" quilting around Jason, Toria and my hands.
Linking back to Elm Street Quilts, our lovely host.
