New quilt

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This has been ticking over for a very long time (by my standards!): I'd been looking at some interesting modern quilts, and then there was a fabric sale in April where I picked up two bolts of different grey fabric, got mocked by the other shoppers, and went back for the teal as well.

Unfortunately, cutting out all the fabric for the lattice bit knackered my wrists, so I put the blocks away in a huff and only went back to it a month or so ago, when I found it while tidying up and realised that I almost had enough blocks sewn to make the lattice symmetrical-but-opposite, so I re-jigged a couple of bits to make that work. Then I pretty much just stuck other bits of fabric on (including some grey squares that I'd already cut before my wrists started complaining), carefully doing Hard Sums to make sure that it was just the right size so that I'd have enough fabric left over for the backing as well.

After I'd quilted it, I realised that my Hard Sums had been insufficiently hard, but fortunately I'd not emptied the bin in the office, so I did eventually manage to scrape together enough bits to do the binding as well!

Comments

[clothsprogs]

Well done!

Teddy

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*Finally*!

(See, I get twitchy about unfinished projects. I really must finish that hand quilted pillow case from the class I did....)

[bibliofile]

Cool! What's the finished size, approx.? It's hard to tell from the photo. That is, wondering if it's an art piece or maybe a throw?

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It's about a small UK single / US twin bed size (would cover the top of the bed excluding pillows), which makes it Just Right for the folding arm chair bed in the library, which is where it's going to go and live. The plain grey squares were cut to 6", so about 5.5" finished.