It's A Finish!

It's a finish!

42 x 54

It all started with what I think is a panel that someone gave me quite awhile ago. I thought since there were circles in the center that I would make Snowballs to go around. I decided on six inch finished snowballs and looked around for red, yellow and blue pieces to use for the Snowballs. 

I did a little math to see what size coping strip to add to the panel for six inch snowballs around and then figured out how much fabric I needed and then I found a red dots on red fabric for the coping strip. 

I added another row of Snowballs to the top and bottom of the quilt to make it a little longer.  And then I quilted it all over with swirls in a red and yellow variegated thread. 

Someone gave me the ready made binding with red, white and yellow flowers and there was more than enough to go around. And, hey, after all these years I think I finally can add a pretty decent binding by machine. Most places I donate quilts request that the binding be sewn down by machine but I still sew binding down by hand on a lot of quilts that are gifted or that I keep since I prefer the look of binding sewn down by hand and actually enjoy doing the stitching. 

And this is the backing. I was kind of nervous when quilting because there was barely any width of backing fabric to spare. 

This will probably go to Quilts Beyond Borders when the box is full. 

And sew on...

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