A quilt to stitch in less than 5 days - part 5

Yesterday was a terrific day for quilting!! I wasn't able to devote my entire day to the quilt, but I'm satisfied with what I was able to get done.

All the stitching in the ditch around all the blocks and border is complete. The green outside border is quilted with freehand loops. And I was able to get all the blocks marked for diagonal stitching.

Which, btw, I have started using a new kind of marking chalk instead of the marking pens I have used in the past and it has worked wonders! I'm so happy with it and will let you know what it is and how I've used it soon!

According to my calculations, which I deem to be pretty accurate this time, I should have at the most 5 hours of quilting left!!! I should easily be able to get that done today. My binding is made, I just need to stitch it to the quilt and the tack it down by hand. I'm just about done!!

My goal for today:

Complete the quilting - 5 hours max

Stitch binding on quilt - 1 hour max

Then all I will have left for tomorrow is to tack the binding down by hand and press it and it's done!!! Hip, hip, hooray!! :)

marking chalk and ruler

quilting the outside border