Picnic in Style - Christmas Project #2

As someone who likes to lay around next to lakes, this picnic blanket had some instant appeal for me. I knew the little Kanglings would enjoy it too. (I had their family for Christmas this year.)

So....this is what my dining room table looked like for about a month, as I kept finding more ways to extend what was supposed to be a quick project. My husband is such a patient man.


I went through several phases with this project.

Idealism: I'm going to make one of these for each of my siblings, and we'll all be picnicking together all year long.

Procrastination: I think I need to embroider eveyone's names on this quilt before I can baste it.


Frustration: All of those mistakes are staying there! Sarah will appreciate them -they'll reaffirm her superior craftiness.


Finished: I just put myself at the top of the list of people I want to make these for.





One very fun new thing about this project is that I actually followed the directions in the book for how to put on the binding. It seemed like a very cheaterish method, but I was desperate to get finished and mail off my present.

...loved it. Blind-stitching the binding usually takes me forever, so it was super-fun to see this binding finished so quickly. The secret? Double-fold bias tape.

Sew/serge it on.


Fold it over. Zig-zag it together.


Easy peasy.



..and gray quilting thread and binding...my new personal favorite!