I was busy sewing the binding onto a quilt the other day. I don't pin the binding on, I just line it up as I sew and do the continuous corner thingy. As I was sewing along I felt a 'bump'. Hmmm I thought, what was that? Well, this is what 'it' was. I has sewn straight over a safety pin which was close to the edge of the quilt- and I didn't even break the needle! Clever me! I thought I had taken out all the pins but there was still one left (well - obviously.)
This is what it looks like with the binding folded away from the top of the quilt:
This is what it looks like with the binding folded back up:
I took these two photos at the same time. I don't know why the colours are so different. I'm such a total klutz at photos. The second photo is more true to life colour.
Now all I have to do is unpick it! It has been sitting, looking at me for a week. I have hand sewn the binding down around 3/4 of the quilt. I feel kind of reluctant to undo my really clever achievement :-)
4 comments:
WOW you are very lucky. I know what kind of damage a straight pin can do...never mind a safety pin!
Well at least you realised before the pin was totally enclosed! Not me, and it's still there. It will stay there, forever!
How curious! Glad you didn't break a needle, or sustain damage.I am doing some binding at present too.
You are not a klutz at taking photos. While I don't remember the techie explanation, there is something built into your camera that does the color thing, without your knowledge. (hey, my instruction book - the English part - is about 63 pages of teensy print so I glossed over the geekie explanation.)
Glad you lucked out on that pin thing. 8-) And the pale green, misty color is lovely.
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