2025 2 Bucks A Block Finish

 After nearly two months trapped on the quilt frame, she’s finally free. Now I adore her, but for those two long months, I was muttering curses like a sailor. She was innocent the whole time, it was me I was cursing.

My grand quilting vision for this quilt was crosshatching in the border triangles, fancy free motion feathers around each block, and a touch of free motion in the chain blocks. But somewhere along the way, I merrily crosshatched right through a few blocks, and rather than spend hours undoing my senior moment I decided the quilt clearly wanted to be almost entirely crosshatched.

The cursing ceased the moment she was off the frame. I adore simple quilting.  Sure, it took what seems like forever and left this old gal’s back hollering for mercy, but it suits the quilt perfectly. Let’s face it, simple quilting looks great on any quilt, while anything fancy is mostly just there for the big “WOW!” factor. Honestly, some of my favorite quilts are the tied ones with no quilting at all.

All three backing fabrics came from the yardage stash. The plaid is from Joann’s, the middle one is quilt shop quality though I can’t recall the manufacturer, and the bottom one is a Lori Holt Riley Blake.

The label was kept simple and sweet with no fabric framing.

For the binding, I decided to use the leftover scraps from the scrappy background fabrics in the quilt top. It wasn’t my original plan, since I usually love using ginghams or stripes for every quilt. But after going through all the gingham, plaid, and stripe options in my stash, none of them felt right. The white binding really let this quilt shine.

We all have our favorite aspects of quilting. For me, I enjoy designing quilts, but nothing compares to the satisfaction of hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt.

It's exciting to finally be at the finishing stage of the quilt making process but at the same time it's relaxing and good for the soul.  

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