I spent 7 hours working on this quilt on Thursday, from basting to attaching the binding. I tried to take some pics along the way and thought I'd share my process. (I had really wanted to write this post Thursday, but once I started working, I didn't want to stop to post, and then once the quilt was at a good stopping point, my arms were too tired to post, haha).
I timed myself during the basting and binding, and found that it took just about an hour to baste, and then only another 60 minutes to cut, join, press, pin and attach the binding.
At the end of the night I took the quilt down to the living room to show C, shook it out and said, "Ta da!" hoping he would be as impressed with my progress as I was.
Me: "Look, I did all this today"
Him: (not really phased) "how long does it usually take you?"
Me: "For the amount of work I did just today? About 8 naps."
I would have liked to take more pics of the quilting and squaring up, but it was already dark and I knew they wouldn't come out that great. I did snap this one of my improv binding holder-- usually I wind binding around a piece of cardboard as I press it so it's more manageable to attach to the quilt. Well, I cleaned the sewing room last month and couldn't find a piece of cardboard anywhere. But, george had been playing with his train set in the sewing room earlier, so I grabbed one of the track pieces and.. it worked perfectly.
Part of me thought I should just push on through and hand stitch the binding like a mad woman so it could be done for a Friday Finish.. but that didn't happen. Guess there's always next week..