Back of Binding Half Done, New York Beauty

I'm alllllllllmost halfway done attaching the binding to the back of the New York Beauty quilt! And I'm happy to report that the quilt is now lying quite flat and nice, and I'm sure just a dab of starch and steam will have it in crackerjack shape.  😄  I'm glad I only had to take the binding off, and not the piping too. But all this reattaching it entirely by hand has taken time. 

I worked too long in the flower gardens this morning and acquired a nasty ol' headache/neck ache. But there are more irises blooming, the lilacs are finally blossoming away (mine are always weeks later than everyone else's around here), and the flowers on the porch are adding their color until all the other perennials start blooming.

Pearls All Sewn Onto New York Beauty

I finished sewing all the pearls on the New York Beauty quilt, then sewed a lace medallion circle onto the center of the quilt, and added more pearls to it. Then I removed the binding, because the quilt wasn't lying quite flat. I'm putting it back on by hand. I'll get it flat if it's the last thing I ever do! 

Fuzzy Wuzzy?

For the ladies who thought it was a piece of fur on the little china dish: 😄

Pearls on One Block of NYB Quilt

The pearls are sewn onto one block on the New York Beauty quilt.  That leaves 39 blocks to go, counting the four that make up the king-sized pillow shams.  It took me three hours to do this one block.  That means it's a 120-hour job... but let's hope I've worked up a rhythm, and will now speed up!  😉  And... these are all the pictures you're going to get until this quilt is done.  I promise.  😄

Sewing Pearls on the New York Beauty

The binding is done, and now I'm sewing pearls on the Venice lace of the New York Beauty quilt.

Sewing Beaded Piping and Binding on the New York Beauty

Today I sewed the beading piping and the binding on the New York Beauty quilt, and now I'm stitching the binding to the back -- hand-stitching, for the first time in a long time, as it would be a little too messy trying to stitch in the ditch next to those beads, and catching a mere 1/32 of an inch of the binding on the back, as I usually do.  I've done about 15 inches, which means there are 453 inches to go.  And then... the pearls.  The 10,000(+/-) pearls.

As usual, Tiger and Teensy sleep through it all in their cozy Thermabeds -- big ol' Tiger in the smaller one, and the smaller Teensy in the bigger one.  I have no idea how they came to this agreement.

Tiger

Teensy