I *heart* My Quilt

Well, my first quilt is completed and I'm thrilled with it. It's taken a while because I didn't have a walking foot for my Bernina sewing machine and at $280 for a new one I had accepted that I probably wouldn't ever own one! After a bit of investigation though I did manage to buy a generic foot on TradeMe which is made for Bernina machines and was only half the price. It was still painful paying that much for a sewing machine foot but necessary if I ever wanted to quilt.

I used a cotton/bamboo wadding which has the nice heavy feel to it that I love and quilted it on either side of the 'ditch'. The backing is an old cotton sheet which has been washed so many times that it's lovely and soft.

After reading several books and tutorials I chose to machine stitch one side of the binding and hand stitch the other side. Quite therapeutic actually.

The mitered corners aren't perfect but I'm still happy with them. I used this tutorial for the binding which was really helpful with lots of pictures.

Under this quilt with a cup of coffee and a good book is my new happy place :)