FINISHED!! Practically half Done may have been overstating it a bit.
At the beginning of February this quilt was stashed fabric and a pile of orphan blocks from years gone by.
(A lot of years! ;)Selvage of the red print dated it as 1994.
I managed to find enough fabric for the center. I bought 2 yards of a similar shade of blue to widen things a bit. Not a scrap remained of anything big enough to do the binding, so back to the store I went... only to find IT was all gone! Purchased a yard of a solid color a shade up.
I had never sewn Drunkard's Path curved blocks before... found out why "wonky" is used as a noun instead of an adjective? (Makes all things forgivable... in an "I meant to do that!" kind of way :)
There was no Plan... this is just what happened!
Blogged here in greater detail.
Hand quilting began on February 14th and the last quilting stitch went in on February 27th. An ice storm kept me off the road until March 1st and prevented shopping for binding. Hand stitched the binding to backing today!
PhD POSTCARDS Because of the 12 foolishly blurted after my name in the sidebar, my stated goal was adjusted to finish 6 fabric postcards taking up space in varying degrees of un-done-ness. I finished 7!
7 comments:
I'd love a postcard. good luck on the phds.
Great job on the finishes! That's a pretty quilt. Cute postcards too!
You took some pretty ordinary looking orphan blocks and turned them into something amazing. That is one beautiful quilt. Your creative vision is incredible.
Wow, what an accomplishment in such a short time! Congrats on an amazing finish! Think Shay has said it well.
And your needle tatting and embroidery is beautiful! Love fabric postcards.I'll have to try that with some of my tatting. Nice to find someone who also uses the needle instead of a shuttle :)
Lovely work on the quilt and the postcards. I'd love a chance to win one of your cards. Thanks for your generosity.
Your quilt is absolutely wonderful Laurie!! Love it!
Great postcards too! 8-)
I like your final quilt. Sometimes that is the best part of quilting.......seeing how a quilt evolves to something quite amazing.
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