Kaffe Fassett Quilt Done

At last I finally finished my Kaffe Fasset Quilt.  I had wanted to bind it with the purple fabric that I used in the background, but I ran out of that fabric and so did my local quilt shop.  I settled on a black border.  I think it works ok.  As a fairly new quilter, I am always looking for ways to make my quilting easier.  I love the way to make a continuous lenght of quilt binding by marking lines, sewing edges together to make a sleve, and cutting one long strip.  Missouri Star has a great video demo.  I highly recommend you check it out.  Speaking of binding, I recently discovered and found that I prefer binding with single fold bias fabric - for this quilt I cut the strips 2 1/4".  It seems that the single fold bias binding is more fool-proof (at least for me) than the double fold method.  With this quilt I felt I bound it quite skillfully.  When I sew on binding I get frustrated keeping the binding under control as I sew.  I decide to try a new method to manage the binding.  I rolled it around my hand and lift and set down the leg of my extension table in the center of the roll.  I took a picture to demonstrate.  It worked VERY well.   The binding did not get tangled or twisted and was right there as I sewed.  Yea!  

Worth mentioning, in reading past posts, I finished the quilt top about a month ago.  Oh well.  

The binding...

The quilt front:

The quilt back: