Which Way To The Chocolate?

Which Way to the Chocolate?

63 x 78

Machine pieced and hand quilted

I quilted with big stitching in a variety of threads from my stash -variegated brown perle #5 and perle #8, light brown 20 wt. 

I didn't mark any quilting lines. I just eyeballed about 1/4 inch inside each geese and then stitched in the ditch around the sashing and then stitched lines about 1/4 inch away from each other inside the sashing. 

I used a chocolaty brown muslin for the backing and it's kind of fun that you can see all of the stitching echoed on the back. 

It's been cold in these here parts lately so I'm ready now to cover myself in chocolate! 

This was my goal #6       for the      First Quarter 2016 Finish Along. 

I'm going over today to:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

In The Hoop: Which Way to the Chocolate?

I started big stitching on "Which Way to the Chocolate" last night. 

I'll use a variety of different chocolate colored threads on it. 

I'm using threads from my stash. Looks like I need to improve on my thread management skills. 

I'm going to sit next to the wood burning stove on this cold wintery Slow Sunday Stitching day and enjoy some slow stitching with some other folks in a virtual sewing bee. 

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Which Way to the Chocolate?

It's just a top. Not a finished quilt. Might not be a finish for awhile since I'm not sure how I want to quilt it. 

I had a lot of chocolate fabrics.  Some are scraps left over from my Crazy Cravings quilt.  I still have some bits and pieces left over after this quilt so I still see another chocolate quilt in my future. 

The geese finish at 4 x 8.  I had the brown fabric in my stash. I would have preferred something a little darker but I wanted to use what I have. I wasn't sure I would have enough of the brown so I pieced it whenever I could.  It was in the sale bin at Hobby Lobby earlier in the year.  I forget which color it is but it is a Kona Cotton at about half the regular price.  I like a good sale almost as much as I like chocolate!