Quilting

(Disclaimer: This is probably more than you want to know about this quilt … so skip this post if you want to.)

I know you’ve been waiting for this, right?  J’s quilt, which I started way back in February … IS FINALLY DONE!!!  After piecing the top together, and taking it to Utah to quilt around each square, I finished the edges and then quilted each individual square.  This is how it turned out.

I love turning the quilt over, after I’ve quilted the inside of the square, and looking at the back.  On some of them, you can seem the details better that way.

Can you see the 3 smaller c-47s flying in formation?

Or the shark fin sticking out of the waves in the corner?

Some of them were easy, and some of them I agonized over.

At first the wolf howled at a whole moon … but it looked less like a moon and more like a random circle … so I made a crescent, and I liked it much better.

This one is a control tower and a runway.  I say that because everyone looks at this square a little strangely. 

It was supposed to be an octopus … but it’s more like a deep-sea monster.

ABC and 123 … and then I realized the picture wasn’t really a school bus.  Oh well.

Do you see that lovely African tree on the horizon?

J really likes the ones that have a “momma and baby” on them.

So, I’m done, right?  Right?

Those who know me best will know I have a touch of OCD. 

And what’s a brand new quilt without a matching pillow sham?

And then he needs a new valance!  (Please excuse the fleece hanging behind it – daylight savings time and long summer days kill us without being able to drop the fleece down and darken the room at bedtime.)

And there you have it.  All done!