Spooly Scrumptious UFO Finish

My Spooly Scrumptious is finally a quilt after 13 years of waiting. Waiting on what? Me! For some reason, I felt this quilt deserved “special” quilting because I loved the Bonnie and Camille “Scrumptious” fabric so much.  Now for those of you who also love Bonnie and Camille fabric, you might notice a few Bonnie and Camille Marmalade fabrics in there as well.  The two fabric lines blend so well they are hard to spot.

When you spot crosshatching in the background of one of my quilts, you can pretty much guarantee I’m in full “let’s get it done” mode. My heart was all for taking this quilt to the next level with intricate, dense custom quilting, but my brain yelled, “GET REAL!” and ordered me to finish it ASAP.

Now that she’s finished, I love it just as much with the simple quilting. My original plan for this quilt was to make it a wall hanging, but it’s also the perfect size for a lap or baby quilt. Quilting it too heavily would have made it more likely to be used only as a wall hanging. Now, I or someone else has options.  

The backing and binding are made from leftover backing fabric of another quilt. I would have preferred a different fabric for the binding, but I didn’t have what I wanted in my stash, and there was plenty of the large dot so why not use it. I could have pulled the backing over to the front to bind the quilt, but I’m not a fan of that look. So, it was machine stitched to the front and hand sewn to the back.

And as always, a simple label was added to the backing before quilting. 

Even though my original vision for this quilt didn't happen she's still Truly Scrumptious to me.  The original post for the start of this quilt can be found here.

If you're curious about how I came up with the name Spooly Scrumptious, this clip from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will clear things up.

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