Here is another baby quilt where I used the sailor boy and girl fabric. I have made at least three baby quilts from this fabric and I still have a fat quarter left. This design is a Double Irish Chain. I did a Quilting 101 class for my quilt guild a couple of months ago. This is the quilt that I made from that class. There were just a few blocks done at the time of class. I took this quilt to our guild meeting last Tuesday night and shared it at our Show and Tell. It is the first quilt that I used flannel fabric on the back.
I had trouble with the binding. I sewed it on with my black Singer Featherweight. I did not notice that it was skipping stitches until I had completed the binding on both sides. There were so many skipped stitches, and some were big enough to push a little toe through, so I unsewed the last stitching. It was not easy for me either. My hands were hurting after a hour of unstitching.
My Viking sewing machine was in for servicing. After we picked up my Viking from the shop I brought it home and set it up right away. I sewed down the binding with the Viking and it worked out great. No skipped stitches. I did use a bigger needle size on the Viking than I had on the Featherweight. I wonder if that helped the skipping problem? Maybe if I had used a larger size needle on the Featherweight there would not have been skipped stitches.
Happy Quilting
