Friday, June 20, 2008
After All These Years
It took me a long time, about 17 years in fact, but it's finally finished. Here is my college quilt that I started, entirely forgot about, and discovered it in the closet, with about 10 % of the quilt top sewn together already, when I started my butterfly quilt a couple months ago. The colors are so dated, in country blue and mauve! I am pleased it turned out better than I thought it would. It was difficult because I made some mistakes on it (17 yrs. ago) and tried my best to fix things this time around. I didn't want to waste all that fabric by throwing the whole thing away! It amazes me that I cut out the entire thing with regular scissors, not the time-saving, highly accurate gadgets of today: the rotary cutter and mat. Without further introduction, here it is.
Don't you think it will make a nice picnic quilt for the park, or even a snuggle-under throw for our school room, for our family story times? Our school room gets a little chilly sometimes.
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3 comments:
That turned out REALLY good! What did you do about binding? I can't tell from the picture.
It's beautiful!!!!
I think I like a contrasting fabric as the binding, but I had SO much of this country blue, I used that. I machine stitched it on. It's so much faster than by hand! This is the second machine binding I have done, and it turns out pretty nice. I'd love to show you sometime if you want!
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