The orange peel quilt is on hold, but not abandoned. I need to consult with the quilt community about some. . . issues. . . with the quilt blocks.

In the meantime a quilt that stares me in the face when I’m at my computer was weeping because the binding was a mess.

You can see in the picture above that I didn’t catch the back of the quilt (in some places) when I applied the binding. Jenny Doan matriarch of the Missouri Star Quilt says “finished is better than perfect”, but this really was a mess and someday I’ll give it away.

So I spend a couple of useless days picking out the binding and realized I couldn’t reuse the binding. Ahhh well. I created more binding and the quilt looks much better now.

I also created a table topper using the Economy block (also called square-in-square). I fell in love with the butterfly fabric and thought the block would show it off nicely. It will be our spring/summer topper.