Flawless, I say

I'm out of batting :D so I'm kind of slow on quilting. I do have a linen top ready but no decent pictures, so it will have to wait a little.

However, I must show you this. Ok, not the best pic, but can I brag just a little? Of course I can :D

This is the back of my charm pack bliss quilt. And it's not even ironed. I am sooo proud of it :).

My first piping

Yes, another first.

I bought a bliss charm pack although it's so not my style. And forced myself into something a little too sweet for me. I didn't manage to do something bliss style, but I do love it.

Some white from my local quilt shop (my Kona is not here yet :( ) some Moda feathers, a bit of red Kona and a part of one Bliss charm pack:

I didn't give piping so much thought. I cut two 1,5" white strips and one 1" red strip. Ironed the red folded and placed it between the whites, folded part on the inside.

Ironed it open then folded and that was pretty much it. I wanted to avoid bulk and made sure the strips were not pieced togheter in the same place.

The difficult part was finishing the binding/piping and took me more than half an hour to join the ends, also paying attention not to join the red and the white in the same place to avoid beeing too bulky. See the 2 blue marks? That's what they're for.

I'm really proud of myself :D. It's kind of flauless :)) The only problem I had was using white thread to fininsh the binding, meaning white thread on red fabric, but the other option was haing some red spots on the back and...hmmm..I think it's better like this :)