Friday Finish

I haven't been finishing anything on Friday recently....

Especially not something this big

and this wonderful!!

Today's  a happy day.

;)

I took this old, old hand pieced quilt

and made her useful.

Every quilt wants to be USED!!!

I knew I did not have YEARS to quilt around each hexagon.

I also considered the age of the fabric

and the stains here and there.

I knew a simple quilted pattern was the answer...

but WHAT pattern???

I ended up using the small green diamonds as my guide.

I thought I might detract from the GREEN by using cream thread...

but I think it worked out just fine!!

I am also so happy I did not have to mark any lines.

I do NOT like marking quilts for quilting.

;/

I have attached the binding and will spend some relaxing hours

hand stitching it to the back.

I cut the binding on the BIAS 

since I wanted to CURVE around the side flowers

and not have to cut them off.

Bias binding is the key when you're doing any kind of CURVE!

The quilting lines are not perfect.

The piecing done by a long ago quilter is not perfect.

But...

I now have a PERFECTly WONDERFUL QUILT!