Solved & Finished

Didn't locate any additional fabric for my binding but did come up with a solution. I had two pieces of fabric left that were just long enough but not quite wide enough for my 2 1/4" binding. It occurred to me that if I folded the short sides to the inside of the binding, no one would know there wasn't a double thickness for that little bit.

Sewing it on the front of the quilt.

And would you believe this is how much extra I had for overlap. Just enough to sew the ends together with 1/4" seams (it looks like more here, but trust me, after I sewed the binding all the way around the ends met with seam allowance to spare and that was it...I didn't trim anything) . A miracle!

And here's the quilt with the binding hand sewn to the back. At this point I no longer know where the short section is that has the not quite double fold binding.

These blocks were some I won last year when our guild used the Martha Washington's Star block as our BOM. Each month we made a different color or fabric category. I won the month we used 30's fabrics..one of my favorites. I have one extra block that I think I will use to make the label.

It just wouldn't have looked right to me if I hadn't repeated the red in the binding.

Did you notice what I only did after it was finished? Two of pinwheels spin the opposite direction. I think I like that!

This is my second finish for May and 11th for the year. Still have at least eight tops to quilt.