Little Wooden Doll makes a Patchwork Quilt - Nearly finished...but then .....

 

All seemed to be going well , until we realised that we had forgotten to add the last border !

Without that extra border , the quilt would not hang over the sides of the bed . 

                                                       Don't panic !

So now we had some serious work to do ! Unpick all the stitching around the edge  so that we could get to all three layers of the quilt .

The border strips were stitched on to the patchwork quilt top .

More red cotton was cut to stitch on to the quilt backing fabric .

Four more strips of quilt wadding/batting were cut and laid edge to edge and then stitched together using herringbone stitch  . This was tricky but not impossible . 

 Herringbone stitch can be a very useful stitch as well as decorative . In this situation it didn't need to be perfect , gently worked from side to side , pulling the edges together .

   Carefully and not too tightly . All three layers were then put back together, ready for some further quilting and when that is all done , it will all be quite secure and you would never know anything had ever gone wrong ! 

   This method could be used to extend a full size quilt if needed . 

 

We decided to sew on the binding next and finish the quilting later on .

Tomorrow we are going to make the mattress for the antique doll's bed .