Quilting Under Way!

Weird bits of grammar you never knew you needed to know:

Under Way or Underway?

Under way is conventionally two words when it functions as an adverb or a predicate adjective (E.g., “The ship voyage is under way.”). It is usually one word, underway, when it is an adjective preceding its noun (E.g., “The underway voyage was interrupted.”).

And there you have the title of this post.  The quilting is under way!

And the underway (one word!) quilting is being accomplished in a golden colored thread in an edge to edge design called Bread Basket.

I don't know why little tidbits like this float my boat, but I never know when I'm going to need to recall this information.

My day started here - with piecing a backing.

I decided to pull all of the multicolor prints with black backgrounds. The stripes will go across the quilt, not down the length from top to bottom as the fabrics I had worked best that way with what I could get out of them.

And while I usually like to load quilts side-ways for long rows of quilting, this time I am quilting it head-to-toe because of the direction the seams go in the backing.  I want them laying along the length of the roller bar, not wrapping around and around it.  It's a tension thing.

Yes!  This will do the trick!

The gold-ish thread blends right in with everything without shouting out as too light against the colored fabrics, or to dark against the light sashing.

I didn't get that far - most of the day was prepping that backing, but the rest should be smooth sailing from here on out.

Prepping binding!

I was able to demo my Sew Q Laser to the December Quiltvillians while they were here.  This thing is a game changer for doing things like joining lengths of borders or binding on the diagonal. 

I think the aqua binding will be just the ticket to finish the edge of this king string monstrosity.

I have no idea how long that piece of aqua has been in my stash - but it used up nearly the whole piece, so that shelf in my cabinet is breathing a bit lighter for that too.

Today - we quilt some more!

And finish up Part Three of Indigo Way.

Are you ready?

To my Jewish friends and those who celebrate - I am wishing your family peace and light this holiday season. Chag Sameach!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

As sometimes happens -

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I allowed my stress and my fear to keep me from sleeping last night.

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I need to not take those heavy loads to bed with me.

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And neither do you.

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Have a pieceful Thursday, everyone!