*national sewing month project #5

Woot! Yippee! I have finished a WIP! It is no longer in that category, it is now photographed and in my COMPLETED Quilt Journal!

Yes, you can say I am a bit excited.  I have been working on this project for several years now. The top has been completed for more than a year, but it has been waiting to be set in and completed.   This quilt was a product of one of my classes that I took at Loving Stitches with Wendie as our teacher.  She had made several "stripy quilts" and shared it with us, and we all decided it would be a great project for our class.  I chose some scrap fabrics for all the pinwheels and purchased some stripy fabric for the inner and outer borders.  We used Deb Tuckers, Tucker Trimmer tool to make these blocks.

 I chose to meander the quilt with hours of loving care!  This quilt is a double topper, or nice lap quilt for snuggling on the couch or perhaps even taking in the car on a long trip.  I learned to quilt traditionally and would have never thought to put binding on with the machine in the beginning, but now I cannot imagine getting it on any other way!  I use a decorative stitch and it, I think, adds a nice touch.

For this quilt I used Hobbs Natural Batting and ended up with the lovely crinkle throughout the quilt as the batting shrunk a bit when I washed and dried it.

One that is unsuspecting will walk to her mail box in the coming week to pick up this package, as she opens it I hope she loves it as much as I do.  Love is the thread that binds us together.
 

~Lynnie

shared at Homestead Revival