Good Golly Miss Dolly

Like an Olympic marathon qualifier, what I thought would be a nice race to the finish became a heartbreaking limp. 


It all started with the binding. In the past, I have had trouble making my small project binding too wide - usually 2 3/4" or 2 1/2". This time I thought I would opt for a narrower binding. So I cut my vintage reclaimed strips at 1 1/2".

I thought nothing of it as I sewed it onto the front of Dolly Quilt #2. It looked great.

But then it came time to attach it to the back and sew in the ditch in the front. Because I cut the fabric on the bias, there was no stretch at all...and it just did not cover the 1/4" on the back in some places!


I wanted to cry...yes I did! Tears of frustration were threatening. So I did what all good quilters should do and turned the light off and went to bed.

So then this morning I was kind of hoping that the light of day would bring fresh insight. Should I persevere? Or cut my half stitched (very badly I might add) quilt loss and unpick it?

I decided to persevere instead. So I replaced my bobby pins with lots of pins to hold the fabric in place.

So here is it! All finished and I can truly say 'thank you God'. 

Technically it's Saturday but I'm linking up anyways...