Sea Breeze Mini QAL – Finished

Hooray, I just finished the binding on my Sea Breeze and I even went out of my usual and used a lighter colour for the binding.  I really like it.

You can see I went with my plan for the quilting.  I like the effect, perhaps next time I would quilt the lines closer.  This week I fitted this in between quilting for the upcoming Canberra Quilters Exhibition.

I decided to try to really fill the binding and so I trimmed the quilt larger than the edge of the quilt sandwich. Just a little bit.

The wadding and backing are cut larger than the quilt top.

The corner can be a little bulky so it can be trimmed on a 45′ cut to reduce the bulk. Sorry I haven’t shown that here, just snip off the corner.

Then when the binding is folded over there is some extra padding inside to give the binding some extra fullness.  This is an area that judges will check in a quilt show.  They will feel the binding to see if the quilt goes all the way to the edge.

And here is a close up of my mini.  Thanks Angie for organizing this QAL.  I have learned quite a bit and had a lot of fun.

Have fun with your Sea Breeze.

Raylee