Morning Garden Beauty Shots

 

The Morning Garden quilt is complete and here are some of the beauty shots.

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Taking Beauty Shots is always interesting and occasionally challenging. To wit:

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Adding Binding to the Morning Garden Quilt

 

I added the binding to the Morning Garden quilt.

This definitely qualifies as quilt wrangling.

I got it done. Now I have to fold the binding over to the front and pin it down. Then I can hand sew the binding down. Given that it's Christmas week, and that I am hosting (and cooking) the feast, it may be a week or more before I can get it done.

Backing for Morning Garden Quilt

 

There are several Charley Harper prints in the Morning Garden Quilt, so I decided this one with frogs and butterflies would be the centerpiece of the pieced backing I will make for the quilt.

I used the leftover blocks on the backing too!

This is the finished backing for the Morning Garden quilt.

I always place the flimsy on top of the backing so I can ensure the backing is at least six inches bigger than the quilt top all the way around.

This one is ready to go!

Morning Garden is a Flimsy!

 The main body of the Morning Garden flimsy is complete. I will add a border to it next. (You can see it over on the left.)

Earlier this week when I was sewing the blocks into rows, when I would complete a row I would sew it to the row below it (so I was joining two rows into pairs), and I inadvertently inverted one of the rows so I sewed the two rows together the wrong way. I hate when that happens, but I took it apart and sewed the two rows together again.

And sewed it wrong AGAIN!

That was my cue to exit the studio and do something else. When I calmed down a bit, I went back into the studio and unsewed the seam again.

Then I double and triple checked and sewed the two rows together, properly.

And then kept going.

Morning Garden

 

I made all the blocks for the new Slide Show quilt, whose working title is Spring Garden. Here I have just thrown them up on the wall. I will rearrange the so the fabrics are well distributed. I can't quite see what it will look like without the "background" fabric.

Here I have placed the "background" fabric where it belongs, and I can immediately see the blocks with the light centers have to change. That is not a surprise. I can't really design a quilt unless I can see all the fabrics and blocks together. Obviously I've got to place the rest of the background fabric, and I have some rearranging to do, but overall I am very happy with the way this is turning out.