Brrrrr. Brutally cold weather outside but it's warm enough inside the shop to still have Friday Night Free for All. I imagine it will be a small group of diehards who will come tonight to sew.
Binding is my job tonight -- two Guild baby quilts to bind by machine and a larger quilt to finish the hand binding. Making the binding, pressing it, sewing it to the quilt, and then turning it, either by hand or machine, is the process that sews together the three layers of the quilt. It is the last step, and for some people, the step most often procrastinated. Customers often pay me to bind their quilts because they say it would neve get done otherwise. I don't mind taking any quilt all the way through that final step. For me there's a real satisfaction to it.
Being fascinated with words, I can't help but think about giving the quilt away as a binding as well. The quilt connects the giver and the receiver even if they don't actually know each other. I feel enhanced by the knowledge that some of my quilts have gone to soldiers returning from war, to babies being helped in our local hospital, or to women and children in a battered women's shelter. I feel bound to them and hope there is an intrinsic warmth for all of them in the quilts that I have given.
My friends and I will be bound together tonight in our quilting, and not all the warmth will come from the electric heaters. Stay warm!
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