My mother has joined the Empty Nester’s group at church. A group of the ladies who belong to the Empty Nester’s meet here once a month to do charitable sewing. For the past few months, they have devoted their time to making things for the church bazaar. I’ve offered my help with a few of the projects that needed to be quilted.
At the same time, I’ve been working on three bed-sized quilts of my own. When you have finished the quilting the last two steps in your project are sewing on a label and binding the edges. Binding is simply a method of enclosing the raw edges of a quilt. I happen to prefer bias binding, and I make it the old fashioned way, cutting one strip of bias fabric at a time. This is what the project looks like when I start:

I made the bindings for four projects one morning, and for three more the following day. This is what the first batch of binding looked like when it was ready to be applied to the quilts:
I’ve finished the bindings on two of the three large quilts. I’ll have to bind four large lap quilts before the end of the month. I took the time to measure the binding I had made, and there is 145 FEET of it! I’ll have to work fast to get those four lap quilts done!