Binding the Blue and the Gray - One Monthly Goal for November

Hooray!  I finished the quilting on the Blue and the Gray quilt yesterday, and today I cut around the edges.  

I think maybe you can see the quilting a little better in this photo, below -- diagonal in the blocks and cornerstones, lines in the sashing.  At the time I took this I still had one border rectangle and one corner to quilt.

The corners of this quilt will be rounded.  The sashing on either side of the corners are quilted in straight lines so  I decided to continue the quilting lines right around the curves of the corners.  I marked the corners before I layered and basted the quilt.  But by the time I was ready to quilt them, the marks were too light to see.  (I know, they show up in the photo below, but not so much in real life.)  So I marked them again.  I couldn't remember what bowl I'd used the first time and couldn't find one that was the same size.  In the end, I used a 10" quilting hoop because the pattern for the half-size quilt used a 5" bowl.  

I couldn't find sequential sizes of anything to trace the curves so I just measured from the outside edge using pins, then quilted toward along the pins.  Not a perfect solution but it worked well enough.

My One Monthly Goal for November is to choose fabric for binding then attach it for a finished quilt.  I'm a little uncertain how to bind around those curves, unless I cut the binding on the bias.

I'm linking this post to One Monthly Goal November at Elm Street Quilts.  Thanks for hosting, Patty.

--Nancy.