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.
The crosshatching looks beautiful! And the white binding does also! Enjoy snuggling under her and happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteThat cross hatch quilting is so perfect! The lines match up perfectly with the pieces of your blocks and that must’ve been a bugger to get right!? Impressive!! Hand quilting the binding is also my favourite part of the quilt process and impossible for me to understand why everyone doesn’t love it haha!! It’s so peaceful and relaxing in our loud and busy world. I look forward to seeing what you tackle next.
ReplyDeleteLooks perfect to me!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Perfect quilting and binding choices. PattiK
ReplyDeleteGorgeous finish, Lea Anne. Congratulations! And I agree that "simple quilting" is underrated. Just because there's a more difficult way of doing something doesn't make the hard way automatically better. I love how your crosshatching looks on this quilt.
ReplyDeletethis is beautiful! Congrats on finishing: I love it! You're right about simplicity sometimes being the best finishing. Hugs, H
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