Working hard for the Man

Everytime my husband goes to work my daughter and him have this conversation:

"Daddy where are you going today? "

"I am going to work."

"Why can't you stay home and play Daddy?"

"Because Gwenie I have to go and work hard for the Man."

So lately she has been asking me each time I am sewing, "Mommy are you working hard for the Man?"

I laugh everytime. Kids are so funny. Really my husband is the funny one.

So today this is what I am doing to work hard for the Man.

I got this quilt back from the long arm quilter and so I am working on the binding. It might take forever since the quilt is 90"x 112".



It might be alittle hard to cut the binding strips since I damaged my cutting mat.



I took it with me to my in laws last week since they have lots of space and I could lay out the quilt to trim it all nicely. Well apparently it was really hot in the car and it got warped! I am so mad I tried all kinds of heavy things on it for days and nothing worked. It has damaged on 3 sides and it is crazy. Who knew leaving it in the car for 10 minutes while I unloaded things would do this?



On another note I found out I get my braces off next month. WHOO HOO!!!! Did you know I had braces? You do now.

All different sizes quilt completed!

I think I need to rename this quilt as the if it can go wrong it will quilt. Everything was great when I put together the top of the quilt but once I started putting it all together (batting and bottom of quilt) things kept going wrong. I had to un-pick so much of it because of bobbin problems and because I put on the walking foot on wrong, I didn't realize it until I had done alot of the "quilting". I broke 4 needles while "quilting" this quilt (I have NEVER broken needles)I can be so dumb sometimes, I admit it. But after having my sewing machine in the shop for almost a week, I think that I finished this quilt in great time, it ended up being 44 x 64.

Another issue that I did not think about was the binding. Can you see in the picture how the dots show and then it is plain red?? That was not supposed to happen, but I kinda like it.



My favorite part is the back, I love the black & white dots!



This quilt is for me so it is ok that it is not perfect. I really had a hard time with sewing the binding on this quilt, I don't know why.



I did want to finish my tutorial. I did this continuous bias binding and it was really the easiest way to do it. The only thing I changed on it was that I made the strips 3" instead of her 2 1/2", I like it thicker.