I'm breathing a HUGE sigh of relief over here. What you may not have noticed is that my entire crafting life (aside from
these little guys) has been put on hold since, oh, around October, when I started making this quilt for my bff,
Larissa. For her birthday. Her
December birthday. Right.
The front is made up of completely improvised, scrappy, log-cabin-ish squares. The back is pieced with leftovers, with a nod to the
stacked coin quilt, which I'd originally planned to make for Larissa, until she wrote
this post back in July. (A sane person might have taken that post as practically divine confirmation that that was the way to go. I, on the other hand, freaked out thinking that she, being the crafting whirlwind that she is, would make one herself that would far outshine my own in about a tenth of the time, and so changed my plans immediately. Then proceeded to hem and haw over design, fabric, etc. for the next 3 months, thereby killing any head start I might have had on actually finishing the dad burn thing in time.)
Okay, other details. Basted using
this pinless technique, which I loved. Quick and tidy. Quilted in the ditch on the log cabins then in large, irregular, concentric squares around those. Made my bias tape using
this tute, which,
good grief, makes a lot of tape, then bound the quilt by hand using a similar method to the one described in
this book.
So, anyhoo, it's done. Not my craft opus, which might justify its almost 4 month overdue arrival, but made with love all the same. Hope you like it, Larry.
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