Hurray time – there’s a finish here!  I’ve been sitting on this quilt for what seems like forever.   2017 isn’t actually forever ago but Yvonne Fuchs sponsored this fabulous Wayward Transparency QAL.  I jumped on in the fall.

I completed the quilting over the holidays, and negotiated with myself whether to unpick the dark green triangle quilting since the thread I used was Aurifil’s celery green and I didn’t like how it looked. I knew it would involve time and burying threads and with so little time to sew these days, I wasn’t ready to commit to having to undo sewing.  Well anyway, the quilt won.  I unpicked and it looks so much better.

Do you ever struggle with whether to machine bind or hand bind?  That was my next dilemma.  I mean decision.  I had decided to machine bind my utility quilts, and this quilt fell into that category.  Last weekend was Memorial Day and I elected to leave my Featherweight machine at home for our trip to the cabin for long weekend.   I pulled out the quilt and found it so relaxing to hand bind and finish the quilt.   My utility quilt binding decision may be short lived.  I was so rested afterwards and I had a finished quilt on hand!

So here’s the green beauty – which I’ve named Green Eggs and Ham.  I pieced the backing together with some other cool fabric I found on sale.  My husband likes the colors better on the back but likes the pattern on the front.  I’m inclined to agree but the goal was a  transparency affect.  I’d pick different colors next time as green was so hard to get to match up and work together.  Why is it not that way in nature?

I was able to leave it at the cabin since the plan is to use it for star gazing and cozying up under the cool night skies.  I love it!