H.M. Traditional Wall, Other
2005 Road to California
Montclair, CA

2nd Place Merit Quilting Machine 
2004 International Quilt Festival
Houston, TX

H.M. Traditional Mixed
2004 Pacific NW QuiltFest
Seattle, WA

This was entered in the Great Pacific NW Quilt Fest and received an Honorable Mention in Traditional Mixed. One of the judges comments was "binding needs improvement".  Okay, I exhibit regularly and also judge quilt shows so I knew EXACTLY what she was referring to. I still have not figured out why the properties of silk and cotton are so different but will leave that up to others to ponder.

I really did not want to have to completely remove the binding and replace it with new fabric. Lucky me, the shop was all out of this colour of silk. I had also zigzag stitched the raw edges of the binding after I applied it to the quilt edge. I was thankful not to have to pick out all that thread. 

I think the reflective properties of silk makes a so-so binding worse. After asking advice from everyone I knew, I opted to fuse a thin strip of Palmer/Pletsch PerfectFuse interfacing to the binding and then hand stitched the binding back down. It vastly improved the original binding but I am still on the quest for perfect silk binding!