Final Countdown – Task One

Are you ready? Here’s your first Final Countdown Task. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read this post, and join in!)

Today’s task is . . . 

To put the binding on a quilt. 

If you have a quilt that is so close to being finished that all you need to do is put the binding on, this is your day! If you have a quilt that already has the binding attached, and you’re just not done whipping it down yet, now’s your chance to get it done. If you have a quilt that close to finished, and you just can’t find your binding (this happens to my friend, Rose Marie, all the time), then this is the time to go on the hunt for it, and if you can’t find it, decide what you’re going to do instead, and get it made and attached. Whatever point you’re at with your quilted quilt that doesn’t have any binding, this is the day to do whatever it takes to get it done so that you can call it completed. You’ll have one less UFO going into 2010 . . . 

If you’re an overachiever and don’t have any quilts that still need the binding, then you can still comment and tell us that, just to rub it in . . . then you can be eligible for prizes, too, just to be fair. If you’re working away but your Hopper is holding out on you and you just don’t have a quilt finished enough to be ready for binding, you can still comment here, too, and make us all feel sorry for you, and then you’ll be eligible for prizes, too. We certainly don’t want to exclude anyone.

Here’s the one I’ll be working on.

I made this little wallhanging as part of a guild challenge about 3 years ago, from a pattern I bought when I was on vacation in South Dakota in 2006 (don’t ask, cuz I don’t remember who designed it, and I passed the pattern on since then). It laid unquilted in a pile until I got my longarm last spring, and I decided to use it as a practice piece for longarm quilting. So it’s been quilted since June, and laying across the back of my office chair with no binding ever since. Today is its day! I’ll post again when I’ve finished my Task One.

What quilt will you be binding? Go to it, then leave your comment. Links back to posts with pictures would be fantastic, cuz I’m sure we’ll all want to see what we each get done! But I’ll accept whatever method you wish to use to report in, as long as you leave your comment here.