A Finish - Finally!

 Last February I started on this quilt  It was a kit from our LQS that had recently gone out of business. The pattern is called Magnolia by Blank Quilting. It went together pretty quickly. The blocks are 8.5 inches and it's set, 5X5. Not a big quilt, but nice "couch size".

This is a close up of the setting.  Tumblers hanging in row to the left!  I seem to have more than one project going at a time!

 I got the borders on.  There are 4.  A small  1"black border, then a 2" green stripe, then another 1" black, and fianlly a large 9" focus fabric border!

I cut and assembled the binding, thinking I would get it to the longarmer soon. I love a striped binding, don't you?

I put it away in the drawer with the scraps. I try to save all the fabric until the quilt is completely done. Label and all. And then life happened. A new great granddaughter was expected!  A baby girl quilt needed!  A different month happened and other challenges were presented.

Well, you know the story. A UFO!  Magnolia Quilt 2.0.  I have a few friends with long arm machines. Most quilt only for themselves, but they are taking a bus trip to Paducah in the spring and needed some extra dollars. So I enlisted one of them to quilt it for me. I purchased the batting, pieced a backing from my stash and some left over pieces of the front.  I delivered it to her 2 weeks ago.  She quilted it with a design called Narcissus. Last Thursday I got it back, Saturday I sewed the binding on. Then spent part of Sunday watching football and stitching the binding to the back.

Feet up in the recliner, watching the television makes for good stitching time.

It is finished!

 I apologize for the poor lighting. It's a WINDY, gray day here in NE Wyoming....so no outside photos are possible.

This is part of the pieced backing and you can see the quilting (Narcissus) design on the backing.


I am linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts  Finish It Up Friday and
                                  Busy Hands Quilts   Finished or Not Friday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy