Mona’s Odd Angles!

Mona doesn’t have odd angles – but her runner does!

This is the valentine runner that Mona quilted a few weeks ago. She had no idea when she was designing this that it was going to require a tiny bit of an adjustment when applying binding since the corners were roughly 60 degree instead of 45 degree.

And since I was teaching HER how to do it, I thought this might be a good way to share a couple of hints with you just in case you want to bind something with odd corners.

It’s easier than you think!

Here we are using a 1/4’’ finished double-fold binding made from 2’’ strips.  The whole key with this kind of miter is to STOP 1/4’’ from the edge that you are heading to.

Your binding will always flip up – and be straight with the edge of the next side you are going to sew down.  Here we have started half-way down side 1, and are headed to side 2 – the first short edge in this long octagon runner.  

Back tack your stitching just before you reach the 1/4’’ mark when finishing side 1.  

Remove the quilt from the machine, trim threads.  Fold the binding up and even along with side 2.

Fold it down, with the fold even with the corner.

Set the needle 1/4’’ in from the raw edge of the binding, right at the fold.  Make a couple of stitches and back tack.  Continue to sew to the next corner, stopping 1/4’’ from the edge of the next side.

Repeat the process!

Remove from machine, trim threads.

Fold binding up so it is straight with the next side.

Continue all the way around the quilt stopping 1/4’’ from the edge to miter corners at the 60 degree angle (or whatever your angle is that day!) Join ends in the traditional binding manner.

You might find my binding tutorial helpful when it comes to joining ends!

Good going, Mona!

It wasn’t as hard as she thought!

Table runner and small project bindings are great for evenings of hand stitching!

The corners folded over easily to the angle she wanted!

Max approved!

Seeing this cute Valentine runner (Mona’s design, no pattern available) has me already focusing on things beyond this winter.  Spring can’t come soon enough!  The snow still lingers – it hasn’t melted off the drive yet, though temps reached the low 40s yesterday.

Ummmm, yeah.

That’s my Moby up there to the right, Jeff’s truck in the drive.

The tracks you see are from my wonderful son hefting full mail tubs up to the truck so that he could drive them to the post office yesterday afternoon as our mail carrier can’t make it down the drive with her post office vehicle, and I’m not having that sweet young thing heft 7 tubs up the hill either!  My son, my hero!

Yesterday’s lunch!

Nitrates and carcinogens – yummmm!  Mustard or ketchup, anyone?

We decided a cook out in the living room was mandatory.  Our power has stayed on, and I am SO SO SO grateful.

You know those things they say about hind-sight?  

Were I to be at the Quiltville Post Office in Virginia, I likely wouldn’t have had power for a good portion of the weekend, and the state highway plows have pushed all of the snow about 3 feet high in front of the driveway so I wouldn’t have been able to get in or out.

The Hubster spent the weekend at the cabin, mostly without power and running by generator to make sure that pipes didn’t freeze, and to keep the snow off the lean-to to his man-shed, and the lid of the hot tub so that it didn’t cave in.  He has been plowing the drive with a blade on the RZR, and only had to use the winch on his pickup once to pull the RZR out when it got stuck. 

It wasn’t a place for me to want to be! Close to 20’’ is a lot of snow when you are mountain bound.

Here I was so disappointed that I was NOT moved into my Post Office yet – and the Universe knew better.

Starting my morning off right – Click to play!

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My mornings usually start off at the back side of the house, behind the French doors giving love to Lola and Dresden while charting out my day. 

The Quiltville Stock Room is on the other side of this room I’m sitting in which also doubles as Dave’s office and all around storage locker for things like mail tubs and supplies.  We are in and out and through here all day long, so they have loads of company and people time.  So happy that they have settled in so nicely!

TODAY!  The gauntlet has been thrown down and I am up to the challenge!  (Again, the Universe intervenes when I need it!)

Due to the snow event and delay on incoming deliveries from UPS and FedEx – I got notice that my shipment of 1,000 book mailers has been delayed until THURSDAY AFTERNOON.  I usually receive an order on a weekly basis, but the snow threw everyone about 3 days behind.

There are approximately 150 mailers left in this house.  If I use those all up before the new batch arrives – this girl gets SEWING TIME!  And I am all for that -

Ready? Set? GO!

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Happy Wednesday, my friends!

Whatever you get up to to day - I hope it involves some fabric play!