Here is a picture of my design wall. It's an orphan quilt top. I do not know when I started to sew together all these leftover blocks but that top row of blocks are from Little Quilts and those I was making 4-5 years ago. It measures 60" x 79" right now. I think I'm going to add another border on the top and down the right side and call it done. I have a few more orphan blocks that I think I will piece into the backing.
Here is a picture of my finished Spring Journey Sampler quilt (80 X 100) that I posted about on DWM a few weeks ago.
It took me all weekend to get the binding hand sewed to the back and I sewed the label on last night. I was really happy with how it turned out. I learned a lot about quilting feathers in such a large area. I think I like the back of the quilt as much as the front and am toying with the idea of getting a big piece of white fabric and doing a whole cloth quilt. That one's going to have to percolate in the back of my mind for a bit.
I'm so glad this is finished. I really thought this was one that would just languish away in the back of a closet. If I had to do it again, the only change would be the color palette, this goes with nothing in my house. I lean towards country/primitive. I should have made it in those colors (my colors).
Here is a picture of one of the setting triangles,
here's one of the back. Crappy photo. :)
And a close up of one of the blocks. I quilted each block differently, including using different fillers in the background of each one. In some of the blocks that's all I did was quilt a filler in the white background. Except for knowing I was going to quilt feathers in the setting triangles, I didn't know what I was going to do in the blocks. I decided what should be in it when I got to it. I enjoy this kind of quilting the best.
In this block I quilted flowers in the basket.
I hope you can see them.
