april finished .... quilt finished !

Today is Koninginnedag (Queen's day) in Holland.

It's a day that a considerable part of our country is coloured

orange !

I like that colour but I didn't join the party.

Our queen (with a lot of her family)

celebrates her "birthday"

somewhere in Holland.

Though her real birthday is in Januari ...

but then it's a bit too cold to celebrate outside,

so she decided to stick with the date of her mother's birthday

for all the festivities.

I didn't go out or watch t.v.

because I wanted to finish my

Caterpillar quilt

... and I did !

After adding a lot of hand stitching

I put the machine on the table again :

I finally had to tackle the problem of the sides,

but a "normal" quilt binding didn't fitt to the design, so

......

I know from experience

that making a "zig zag" stitched border

can go terribly wrong !

brrrrrrrrrrr

After a few try outs I solved the problem

with this special press foot

(although it still wasn't easy)

Then I fixed the sleeve at the back

and added the parts that "stand out", after making them a bit stiffer

with some dissolved "water soluble fabric"

This is all you get right now ....

When the new owner has the quilt

then  I will show the whole picture.