2025 OneThing #24 - Put Binding on Medora Quilt

I'm blogging Tuesday, but I had the binding on by Sunday. I had hoped to also have the label and hanging sleeve on it, but that hasn't happened yet. My "true" one thing was helping with building the pole barn. It has been much more time-intensive than I could have imagined!

 

I won this pattern at an MQ meeting and decided to make the crib sized quilt to see if I liked the pattern well enough to make a bigger quilt with different fabrics. I used fabric that I already had in my stash.

 

The top went together pretty quickly at a quilt retreat in March. I went to my friend Rose's house in April to longarm it. That took longer than I expected for such a small quilt!

 

I had made the binding at that retreat, so trimming the quilt and sewing the binding on was done before we came to the lake. I was able to do some stitching each day to sew the binding down on the back side.  I really did think I'd get the label done and sewn on as well as the hanging sleeve for the June show. Oh well.

What I worked on instead was helping with construction of a different kind! I am too chicken to climb up on the scaffolding, but I held things and carried things and fetched things. I shoveled a lot of dirt to fill in some of the ruts left by the telehandler. (That thing is a beast!)

I'm so grateful to my brother-in-law Mike and my sons for helping us get this pole barn built. Today (May 20) is for attaching purlins (the horizontal boards that connect to the uprights and provide a surface for attaching the siding).