long overdue quilt

i'm not going to tell you how long this quilt's been finished. it's been awhile, but i was hoping to have another quilt finished before i gave it away as a gift. the other quilt isn't done, but i just couldn't hold onto this one any longer. it was so sad waiting to be given to its rightful owners. so when jonathan & laure were in the area at mother's day, i sent their quilt back with them. i don't really know what they think of it. unfortunately i forgot to give it to them until we were literally running out the door for the airport. so they got to sort of open the bag & sneak a peak before stashing it in their suitcase. i haven't heard from them since they got back home ... but hopefully they like it.


this photo shows both the front & the back. it was a different assembly than i usually do. instead of piecing together the entire top & then sandwiching it with a large piece of batting & a large backing i made little sandwiches out of each block. so i had one of the individual squares for the front, a square of batting & a square of the backing ... and those were quilted together on the machine. once i had all the individual sandwiches together & quilted they all got joined into the bigger quilt. i have no idea if that makes sense ... but trust me, it was a different way of doing it. fun because it let me machine quilt it - the first time i've done that. time-consuming because of the way i had to join all the individually quilted squares together. but it allowed me to do a fun checkerboard-type back. i like that a lot. :)


here's one showing just the front. the pattern was a stack-and-whack crazy log cabin with some pinwheels randomly scattered.


and one of the quilt lying across my full-size bed to give you an idea of the size. easily the biggest quilt i've made so far. i think it would make a fun picnic quilt. nice bright colors. :)