Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Gram's quilt is done.

I finished Brian's Gram's quilt yesterday. I really am happy with how it came out. I wanted to bind with blue, but I didn't have enough left, so I used the white. I like it though. Here is a closeup of one of the blocks.
Close up of my binding. It's not ruffled, it's just crinkled from washing/drying it. Another view.

I totally cheated on the binding, which I'm sure you quilters already noticed. I machine sewed the back on too instead of hand sewing. I just didn't want to spend more time. I know it's lame, but some times you have to just cheat a little. Well at least I do!
It feels so good to have this one. I look forward to my next project, which is a secret project.





6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love it!!

Cinda

Sherri Thacker said...

Your gram will love it. I do! Its wonderful! Love the colors you picked out!

Linda B said...

It is wonderful and she will be thrilled! She will not recognize the bag of scraps she gave you that she'd cut out so long ago! You will have to take a photo if you are with her when she opens this gift. Nice work Erin!

pescbrico said...

Erin this is really beautiful! Well done! :) I'm not sure if I will ever have the patience to do one again :)
Have a wonderful day!

Jana Nielson said...

That quilt turned out fantastic!! I don't think that Machine sewing the binding on is cheating.
I just think that sometimes "quilt purists" make up rules that make it harder for everyone else!
ps-I have an opportunity coming up where I will be needing some pattern testers. Would you be interested?

Charlene Austin said...

I wouldn't know what quilt cheating would even look like or what quilters "rules" are but I do know that I love it! It's gorgeous and you should be very proud of yourself!!