Tuesday, August 28, 2018

On the Bright Side, Quilted and Bound

One of my good friends came over Friday afternoon and again today and helped me bind this quilt.  This is Jo Kramer's On the Bright Side. This was the cover quilt for American Patchwork and Quilting, February 2018.  My version is all batiks, and the stars are scrappy.  Jo used blue stars, and her background is white.


This quilt measures 96" by 96", so it was hard for me to get a good picture of the whole thing.

I was able to use a lot of my scrap batiks in this quilt, but  I still have a lot of batik scraps left. I have taken a lot of pictures, so you can see the variety in my blocks.





Debbie Cooper of Finish My Quilt did the longarming on this one.  It is a modern looking pantograph, that reminds me of  a cross between baptist fans and the capital letter D.


The back is a gray/blue wide back batik.  


This is a wedding quilt for my nephew and his bride, and it is done 6 weeks early!  I just need to make a label for it.

Ok, I need your help again.  Blogger is not emailing me about blog comments.  I try to reply to everyone who takes the time to leave me a message.  Someone (Cheryl, maybe?) sent me the directions on how to fix this, but I lost a bunch of emails when I got my new phone last week.  So if someone would be willing to help me again, I would really appreciate it.  I promise to save the directions this time!

Stash Report:
Used this week: 8.25 yards (on the bright side backing and binding)
Used year to date: 126.0 yards
 Added this week:  0
Added year to date 154.0 yards
Net Added: 28.0 yards


6 comments:

Kim said...

Your quilt is a beauty, Laura. So much beautiful pattern and colour, not to mention lovely quilting. Again, I do believe you are the queen of piecing. Your nephew and his bride are going to treasure their wedding quilt!

Karen in Breezy Point said...

Congrats on your finish! Those tiny stars are amazing!

Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...

Woohoo, a finish, and early, too! Pretty!

Gale Bulkley said...

What a boatload of piecing! Congratulations on another beautiful finish.

Churn Dash said...

Fabulous! I follow Jo's blog so it is fun to see her quilt design done in different colours.
Helen

Jennifer said...

Such a great wedding present! Lovely quilt and congrats on the early finish.