The Blanket Stitch

Today I finished my bird blocks and got them all sewn together.   I had fused them a while ago but needed to do the blanket stitch around each one.  My machine has that stitch but I've never done it.  Going around the bottom big circle was a piece of cake.   But I had no idea how to get a nice look at right angle corners or the sharp point of the beak.   Thanks to my boss, Connie, I was able to accomplish that part.   She has the same machine as I do and apparently we have this snazzy button called "stitch re-start".   It's right smack dab on the front of my machine.....I'm sure I was told what it was when I first bought the machine years ago.....but I have never used it, nor thought I needed to learn it.  Now I know how wrong that thinking was!   Learn the machine.  It's a good thing.

Close up of how I did around the beak and the itty-bitty eye.  Not bad, huh?

And the feet:

I'm pretty pleased with how I did.   I only had enough fabric to make the blocks and now need to find more in this collection (I bought fat quarters while in a different city on retreat) to make the border and have it finished.   I wonder how long that will be?    :)