Tulips top finished

This quilt top has been put away unfinished for MANY years........it was appliqued and pieced to this point in Oklahoma.

Lately I am feeling the urge to get things to a saveable point.....I mean, if I were to pass away, say, I would like for my unfinished quilts to be at a point where someone could hire a person to finish them if they didn't want to finish them themselves.   With an unfinished top, it's hard to know what the original quiltmaker had in mind.  This way, there's no scrounging around trying to find the pieces that go with it.

Anyway, with that end in mind, I pulled out this project.  As it turns out, the reason that it had gone 'on hold' seems to be that the design needed another  row of blocks pieced and appliqued in order to look right.
 Thankfully there was enough fabric remaining to piece 3 more blocks, and there were already-turned-under tulips and leaves waiting to be appliqued.  I had to come up with some white for background, and I sincerely hope that it is as good a match as it appeared to my eye in this light.

Two borders down, two to go.  Marley-Jo says that's enough for the night !

I also had enough of the solid green (which I pretty much hate) to come up with this plain border, and MAYBE enough for binding, although that is questionable .

The finished size of the top is 79 1/2  x 108 inches .  I don't know if I'll ever manage to get such a big top basted these days, but I feel good about it's present state.  As you can see, it's bigger than the space I current use for basting quilts lately....even if I move the furniture !