Friday Night Sew In Results

So...my first Friday Night Sew IN!  It was nice trying to just focus on sewing and catching up, but as expected, I still had quite a few interruptions from the kiddos.  They're still little, so they just want to do whatever mom's doing, so anytime I'm in my craft area...they're in my craft area.  But I love it...Lilly loves to play with all of my scraps and line up all of my thread, and she's even asking for her own little sewing machine for her birthday.  That just makes my day!  :)

Although it's just a little one, this is my first COMPLETE quilt.  I tried out my new free motion quilting skills, and this is my very attempt at binding, it didn't turn out that great, but hey...it's a first.

Here's the Free Motion Quilting...it turned out ok.

I machine stitched the binding on...and I think it looks pretty bad.  I need help in this area.  If anyone reads this....I REALLY need to find more info on how to do this.  I mean...does everybody stitch their binding on by hand?  I don't know if I have the patience for that.  Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to put on binding by machine??  Or any tips at all???  HELP!!!  Here's some pictures...see for yourself!

And here's some pictures of the completed little lap quilt.  It's my first trial quilt for the kids at the hospital.  The one side is supposed to be like an I-Spy quilt where the kids search for animals and other pictures.  And I put two of each fabric so they can find the matches.  I think next time I'll do more squares and just stitch them all directly next to each other so there's more to look at.

And on the back I used this AWESOME Cars fabric I found which I thought would be perfect for a little kid sitting in bed to play cars on.  I loved that it had little roads! :)

So that's it!  My first complete quilt...(even if it is tiny)  :)  It might not be much...but thanks for a great Friday Night Sew In! :)

~Teresa