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The quilt sandwich and quilting Take care of final pressing. trim any bulk seams and threads from the back. Cut your backing fabric about two inches bigger than the top. Take care of any pretreating of fabric before starting to baste. Place the backing fabric right side down on a flat surface. Using masking tape, stretch the fabric and tape it to the surface so there are no wrinkles in the backing fabric. Smooth out the batting on top of the backing fabric. You may want to choose a low-loft batting so the hanging is flatter. Place the quilt top right side up on the backing. Smooth out wrinkles and tape edges to the flat surface. Baste the sandwich together. You can use safety pins or hand- baste. You want to be sure the quilt sandwich doesn't shift while quilting. The model uses straight-line quilting in the frames to accent the depth of the pattern. Use a blue rayon thread to provide some sheen to aid in the effect of light coming through each of the windows. The top frame piece uses free motion quilting around the circular pane to give the effect of a mottled glass in the top of the hanging. Each window frame of black has two vertical lines of quilting, running the length of the hanging. The blue shadow frame has two lines of horizontal quilting. All the quilting was done with the machine, but you could certainly hand-quilt. When you are marking your quilting lines, be sure to allow for straight lines crossing over the various frames, You will want to make sure you have aligned your markings carefully. The binding Using a flexible tape measurer, measure the three sides of your window panes. From your backing fabric, cut a series of 2 and 1/2" inch strips plus a seam allowance of 1/2" to meet this measurement. Sew them together, and press the seams open. Using the measuring tape, measure the curve of the top pane and add a seam allowance of 1/2". You will want to cut these strips on the bias (diagonally across the fabric) to easily go around the curve of your top window pane. Starting with the straight grain binding, attach at the bottom left of the quilt, making sure the stretchy part of the binding starts with the curve in the window. When you reach the peak of the window, stop 1/4" before the end and backtack. Fold your fabric as though you were going to miter your corner. Continuing with the stretchy portion of the binding, start sewing 1/4" from the edge of the point of the window pane. Once you reach the end of the rounded portion of the window, you should be back to the regular grain of the binding. Continue around the rest of the edging of the quilt. Join the ends of the binding to finish the edge. Binding clips are great to hold your binding in place while you sew it down. The most common method of sewing down binding is to wrap it to the back and slip-stitch it to the back of the quilt. Put a small three-inch sleeve about one-third of the way down the top pane for hanging.
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