Finally Finished!

The wedding quilt for Dear Daughter #1 is finally complete.

It only took almost FOUR years!

I just checked....

here's the very first post......

November 2009.

Here I'd been thinking it had been only 2 plus years!

TIME FLIES!

It fits MY bed JUST right!!!

 

Lots and LOTS of petals were painstakingly

hand appliqued onto squares

following a pencil line as my guide.

Since the instructions for this quilt along

were never completed and I couldn't figure out

some of it....

circles of petals were appliqued onto a VERY large!

EXTRA large!

piece of muslin!!!

I quilted this on my machine.

(ms. Juki)

Tension problems made the job more difficult.

ugh!

After quilting around each petal

I echoed the petals in the border.

 

I love the way it looks...

just wish my quilting was PERFECT!

Do we all LONG to be perfect quilters???

I'd actually settle for

HALF decent quilting!!!

;/

I pieced together a backing large enough.

90"x90"!!

Another effort at USING what I already OWN!

 

After looking high and LOW for a suitable binding,

Asking myself....

What color should I use???

 

I ended up with MUSLIN!

LOL!

It really IS the perfect touch.

It's all curled up on the floor....

waiting to be put into a box.

A box that will TRAVEL!!!

 

Yippee!

Happy to be done.

BUT....at the same time

Kind of SAD.

Sad to see my GOOD friend leaving home.