My cathedral window NICU quilt

While I was surfing through my pictures, I came across these.  It has been such a long time since I finished this quilt.  It must of gotten lost amongst all the rest of the drafts waiting to become posts.  I'm embarrassed to say that I have many drafts that date back to 2023 and 2024.  I want to post about them all, and they will get their time in the spotlight, but it may be a while before I can get to them. 

This particular quilt was started at the HHQG Workshop we had, back in Jan/2024, ran by Jane.  I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and all the comradery that we had.  I enjoyed learning this technique too.  This is a Cathedral Window block which is completely assembled by machine.  By the time I left the workshop, I had this much completed.

The thing about this quilt is that it grew as it went.  I thought I had brought enough fabric, but when it came time to put it all together, I noticed that I was short.  The initial intent was to have one fabric for the accent around the "windows", but I was short on that one fabric.  Luckily, I had a bit of other fabrics that I was able to substitute.  I changed my design to accommodate the fabrics I had.  I thought I was doing good...... 

Unfortunately, I was still short.  In comes a friend to my rescue, who had the purple fabric you see in the picture, which allowed me to make some progress on this top.  Otherwise, I would of had to stop to go home and get something to make it all work.  

On March 25/2024, a couple of months later and you have the finished NICU quilt below.  Even though this quilt was off to a rough start, I think it turned out quite nice.  I used the additional blue and fuchsia fabrics I had, for the frame around the cathedral window, the green for the trim in the centre, and the purple fabric from a friend for the rest of the trims.

Now, here today, after the fact, I think this quilt looks better than it would have looked, if I did it with the initial intended fabrics.  Sometimes things happen for a reason, and this is an example of what can happen if you just work with what you have and make it work, instead of holding ridged to your initial plans.  I like it this way, the way it turned out!!!

Thank you Jane for a great workshop!

Take care everyone.