Sandwich basted

sounds like I have been cooking!

Nope just time to quilt.

Those of you who have been visiting here enough to have seen the early stages  of this quilt may be thinking "oh you have added the edge." How did the mitering go. 

Well, the mitered corners were perfect, a thing of wonder and a joy to behold.  No, they really were. The slight lines all lined up and everything, I was so excited.  The observant will have noticed the past tense there, that they were perfect rather than they are perfect. 

 Why?  

When I laid the quilt out to sandwich and started pinning it was to realise the edge was not lying flat.  Whilst making beautifuly lined up with the pattern corners I had managed to get the outer edge too long.

There would have been very proud close ups of those original corners, I tried to think of a way to keep them.  Alas it was not to be, they had to be unpicked and resewn, still mitered but those lines are a little out.  It was a trade off, reasonable corners (but not close up worthy) with a flatter if not exactly flat edge.  

I am quilting the squares by hand and contemplating free motion quilting for the edge (in the hopes the more intense quilting will help to disguise the wibble in the edge).  Although I am suddenly indecisive about the colour to use. The backing is a dark blue and the binding will be dark blue.  Contemplating!