Hmmmm lovely!!!

Date: 07 May 2008 23:27:49

It's finished!!!

1600 patchwork pieces.
10 different colour blocks.
Over 160 different fabrics.
Just over 2.50 metres square.
Edging and backing fabric 'liberated' from my Mum's fabric chest.

I love it!!! It has ended up much bigger than I expected, but I like the fact that it hangs right down both sides of the bed. It has taken me years to complete it, mainly because I forgot I had been doing it for a while and rediscovered it in the back of my cupboard.

Technically it isn't a complicated quilt. Handstiched 5cm squares stitched into 4x4 blocks which were then randomly (carefully!) placed to ensure that the same blocks weren't too near each other. Edged in blue, then edged in a cream fabric with little blue flowers on it. Then I backed the quilt top with a cotton, then with wadding, another sheet of cotton and then the backing fabric to match the cream blue flowery edging (actually I had to stitch 2 pieces of the backing fabric together, and it was only after I had finished it I notied that I had turned one piece by 90 degrees. Oh well!!). Finally I added bias binding which I machined through all layers to make it strong. Finally I spot quilted in the corner of each square using a button.

Lastly... I autographed and dated my masterpiece!