I have finished the Gingerbread Quilt! It is, of course, impossible to photograph in my living room and I did too many things yesterday, so here's just the general vibes.
I'm pretty pleased with it, it being the second quilt I ever made.

#Quilting #Sewing

The internet told me to do the binding in this way instead of the one I previously did, and I used the normal quilting foot I got to follow along the edge... Thus forming a Cat Hair Catching Lip, so I experimented with this other random presser foot I had, and then spent a good two hours unpicking the first line of sewing. 😂​

I've owned this presser foot as long as I've owned this machine, but since the manual got lost at least 20 years ago, I had no idea what it was and had never considered using it. 😄​ Rummaging through my tin of sewing machine things I noticed it for the first time in years and was like "Huh. I wonder..." and it's absolutely fantastic for this, regardless of what it is originally meant for!

@sinituulia Oh, I think that's the lapped seam foot! I have tried this method twice and been frustrated because it seems like it should work perfectly for me and it hasn't yet. What width did you cut your binding?

@artcollisions The last one I made, I sewed on the binding on the right side, and then secured and topstitched from the right side, like you'd do any garment facing.

I think this was 5cm wide, sewn on with 1.2cm seam allowance, so it overlapped the sewing line by 2mm. Which worked out! But was left with so much loose overlap that it would have been full of lint after one wash, next time I might baste it on all around and only then do the very very close top-stitch with this foot?

@sinituulia Ah, gotcha. I think your standards may be higher than mine :D I am not worried about cat hair though. <3

@artcollisions I am cursed with a precision eye! I don't know how normal it is to be able to look at a bit of sewing and go "yes that's 2mm off" but it's only marginally useful! I generally don't measure anything under 3cm since I can just eyeball it if absolute precision isn't required. 😄

@sinituulia @artcollisions Dressmakers have been found to have better visual acuity than even surgeons. Better than any other field measured, per study I came across.

Personally I think it is because we work with thin materials and needles and pins, and poke ourselves when we get things wrong. Other fields don't have needle discipline. 😀

@sinituulia @artcollisions here it is!

https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/06/13/dressmakers-3d-vision

@sewblue @sinituulia @artcollisions I bet that dressmakers also get way, way more real world repetitions at their craft than surgeons do!