As you may recall from a previous post, I've had this quilt top done for quite some time. I just didn't have the time to take a decent picture of it. I woke up this morning feeling almost 100%. So, I decided, I wanted to get this quilt laid out and basted. The lighting is not the greatest in the basement, but good enough to take a half decent picture.
Finally, here is the big reveal. I haven't shown any pictures of this quilt yet. I wanted it to be a surprise. After completing Bonnie Hunter's Midnight Flight quilt I had a lot of extra pieces, because I decided that I did not want to do the original border.
I looked at all the extra pieces and came up with this layout. I like it. It also uses up almost all of the pieces I had extra. There are only two small stacks left. One of the green squares and the other of the light blue squares.
I added a white border to lighten the top up a bit and separate the centre from the second border. I used up some more green and blue squares by making this second border. Lastly I finished it off with a dark blue fabric that belonged to one of the quilt bee members (Flo), who passed away. The backing is another donation from Flo's stash. It is a butterfly pattern, on a batik looking designed background, in the exact same green and light blue as are on the top. The fabric seems to have been made for this quilt.
Here is a closer picture of the quilt. Just so you can understand the size of this quilt, the little four patches measure 2" square finished. There are a lot of pieces to this quilt. I think the batting was meant for this quilt too. As you can see there is very little margin for error with this one.
I have the quilt pinned and ready to quilt. After writing this post my time should be finished with doggie duty, that maybe I can get started with the actual quilting. We shall see.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!
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