One of the reasons for the delay is that I wanted to bind it in brown, but I didn't buy enough. I had lots of blue, but I have already bound a quilt in blue (is that a silly reason to want to do brown or what LOL!) I bought the first piece of brown off Ebay and luckily the Ebayer still had some which she kindly listed for me. Unfortunately she put it on a 7-day listing so I had to wait a whole week to bid on it! Never mind, it's here, it's washed and more importantly it's on! Now I just need to hand stitch it down, but I doubt I'll get it done for April as it's a pretty big quilt and I haven't even started the handwork part yet :-)
It has been Longarmed quilted by Chris at Fathers-Heart. I chose a pantograph called "Dahlia Delight" and I think it goes so well with the Michael Miller Daisy print which also has tendrils... Dahlias? Daisies? Not sure I can tell the difference :-)
And instead of a quilted back, which I started, but after discussing with Chris the difficulties in lining a 2 sided quilt up, I used an old cotton duvet cover of DH's which he liked, but which we no longer use. I think it goes quite well with the overall feel of the quilt.
The quilt that I started for the back is going to be made (eventually) for a special friend's special birthday so I've got just less than 2 years, but hey I'll probably be sewing the binding on the night before (or the week after!) LOL!
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I can so relate to the binding dilemma...I quilted a quilt for my brother last November. I leave on Wednesday to go visit and haven't put the binding on the quilt yet...maybe Tuesday night?!
It looks lovely. I always love that last bit of the quilt's journey as you sew the binding down and know it is going to be done.
Love the quilt, quilting, binding, everything. I always look forward to the binding stuff, at least I know the whole sandwich and quilting stuff is done...LOL!
You are so productive. Great quilting.
Those dahlias look daisy-like to me - and anyway, they're both flowers!
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