This one's a done deal !
I'm going to have to stop and count how many quilts have been finished this year since the LORD led me to learn how to machine-quilt !
For the binding, I cut strips from all the leftovers that I could find, and angled their ends before joining them.
Then I tried to balance the color all around the quilt.
I wound up not quilting the border at all. I attempted to free-motion quilt, and the machine kept skipping stitches.........I don't mean one or two stitches.......I mean for about an inch and a half it wouldn't stitch, and then it would start again ! After doing this twice, and my checking to see if everything was right about the machine, I decided that the borders were MEANT to be left plain.
This is a birthday gift for a family member/friend who will be 81 or 82 in January, and who is in the nursing home. The size finished at about 54 x 76, which should cover the top of her hospital-type bed.
I need a good name for this one, as I've called it several different things while making it. I don't remember seeing anything like this before I started; I was just inspired by the simple block when I saw it in a very unsimilar quilt setting.
Now today, I ran across a quilt that really reminded me of this one, though the design is a little more structured, instead of so off-kilter, like mine. So funny to run across it today as I was finishing mine.
It's sadly small,.....only about 16 inches square, I guess. I started a wall-hanging for Jodie way back atleast 23 years ago, and this one appliqued block was as far as I got. I made her a totally machine-sewn one instead, which included a pieced sewing machine and pin-cushion, if I remember right. The makings for this wall-hanging went into a shoebox and sat on my shelves all of these years. I pulled it out a few weeks ago, and decided to finish the one block for her, and do some 'big-stitch' quilting with embroidery floss, as I've admired that kind of work around the 'net lately.
Tuesday was her birthday, and although she received this little quiltie in time, I shamefully forgot to wish her a happy day that day. Jodie, please forgive me, and know that it's been a crazy week around here. All excuses aside, I love you, girl, you know that !
