And on a cloudy, rainy day........

.......we get 'er done !

                                                                     The quilting, that is !

I did a little practice on a few scraps and a small piece of batting, just to get my tension right. 

Then I decided that I'd just meander-quilt the border.......if I didn't like the looks of it, or the process, I'd do some straight-line quilting in the middle of the quilt. 

Well, that went alright, so I moved on to the blocks, quilting one vertical row at a time.  Wonderful,........except for the CONSTANT breaking of this cotton-polyester thread, the quilt progressed quickly, and I was done before you know it ! 

I guess it was around 11 a.m. when I began, and I stopped to fix lunch, and to run and get another spool of said HATEFUL THREAD (wasn't gonna change horses in the middle of the stream, mind you !), and I finished around 4:30 p.m.  Not bad for an afternoon. 

After doing the entire border, and 1 vertical row of blocks, I found that I had created a pleat on the back !   There was just too much quilting over it at that point to take the stitching out, so my flaw will remain.   I blame it on too little basting........pin OR thread, and I think it's just fine for a 'using' quilt..  I mean, I regret it, but I'm not pulling my hair out over it !

After trimming up the edges, 

I lay the quilt on the bed for photos in the last,waning light of day. 

  I love shadowed quilt photos ! 

Tomorrow, I'll figure out what I'm going to bind it in, and begin that little job........hopefully. 

 Actually, you never know what a day will bring, so I"ll just say,

 Praise God for a productive afternoon !