Astrid worked very hard on her Hachi quilt. She used mostly Japanese fabrics and her favorite fabric from South Korea (the big flower print with green background).
She included unexpected visitors, and she did not back-stitch on her stitch-in-the-ditch, but left long threads at the beginnings and ends, so she could tie knots in each thread and pull it inside the quilt. She said, "it took forever!" She really wants it to be perfect.
She also read about the tailor's clapper, and how to make the Japanese binding, which is called "end-cap facings." That is why it appears to have no binding. The joining of the front and back is on the exact edge of the quilt. She did not have a clapper, so she used the handle of one of our hardwood cooking spatulas. Astrid thinks that did the job, but when she gets her clapper, in the mail, she is going to press the edges again.
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