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Lay out your quilt top, placing a linen strip
at the top and bottom of the quilt, and
alternating a print row with a linen row, as
shown (Fig 3). Sew the rows together.
FINISHING THE QUILT
5
Place your quilt top on your batting and
baste in place. Quilt as desired. Alice used
three stands of embroidery floss to stitch an
‘X’ in the corner of each pieced row, tying at
the back of the batting to secure (Fig 4).
Remove your basting stitches or pins.
6
Place your quilt on top of your backing
fabric, wrong sides together. Baste using
your preferred method – we pinned and then
ran a line of basting stitches around the outer
edges of the quilt (these stitches were hidden
by the binding). Square up the quilt top and
trim away excess batting and backing fabric.
7
Join the binding strips end-to-end to make
one long length. Use to bind the quilt,
taking care to mitre the corners (page 69). We
used four different print fabric strips to give
our quilt a fun patterned binding.
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of^ hand^
quilting,^ but
simply^don't^ have^ t
he^ time?^ Try^
our^ twist^ on
tying!