Today, after work, I started on the spike border (remember, I am working backwards!) of the Infinity Quilt. After the initial flustered moment of trying to remember exactly how those first 2 pieces of the paper piecing fabric are arranged, I was able to move forward.

On my Janome, I have a utility stitch (D2) that starts with a little back-stitch. You sew on the line and at the end you you press another button to end it.

I’m grateful for this stitch, as I am not security minded when I am sewing, and am not a dutiful back-stitcher despite being aware of the best practices.

I just can’t imagine hitting reverse at each end of a 2 inch seam for hundreds of times in this quilt.

Here are my settings :

After the first 2 pieces I got the hang of it (again, having not done this for awhile.)

The Ruler I am Using – Add-a-Quarter Plus has a tapered edge to it. This means that instead of using an index card for the fold-over part, I only have one tool to keep track of. And kept misplacing it anyway.

It was starting to look like something… And then … I found I had thrown a piece into the stack that was cut too small 🙁

Enter everyone’s favorite tool, Mr. Seam-ripper…

Setting the stitch length to 1.80 was my optimistic way of saying, “When all this paper comes out, I want it to be as easy as that Micro-Perf printer paper we used back in the 80’s.”

So… I think I will have to make a compromise on that stitch length, as this can only be the first mistake, and not the last.

Here’s how far I got today, though…