This will be the final link-up to Bonnie Hunter's En Provence progress blogs. I hope to finish this quilt during February, 2017.
I created a label and sewed it to the back of my backing fabric. I will fill in the actual finish date in the upper right light four-patch square and by writing "February," I have given myself a goal that I need to reach!
I spray-basted the backing, batting, and quilt top together, and I created a binding pieced from scraps of some of the light lavender scraps from the quilt top.
At this point, I have barely begun the quilting.
This is what the quilting looks like on the back so far. I have a lot left to quilt!
The quilting would be a lot faster if this feline Quilt Inspector would finish her job and move out of the way!
A few days later, I decided how to quilt inside the areas that I had already created. The design doesn't show as well on the front, but I love the impact that it makes on the back.
After a few more days, I've managed to quilt the majority of the center of the quilt.
On February 9, 2017, I finished the final step on the quilt, hand-sewing the binding to the back.
This is a close-up of the quilting on the front.
I love the finished quilt! Thanks, Bonnie Hunter!
(Sigh....after getting completely finished I noticed for the first time that I have one small unit turned 1/4 turn in the wrong direction. Why didn't I see that when I was quilting it? I haven't decided whether or not I will try to fix it. I don't think anyone other than quilters would notice it anyway, but it if bothers me, I may take out the quilting in that one area, take the unit out, sew it back correctly by hand, and re-quilt.)
Update: I fixed the offending rotated unit. I couldn't stand leaving it wrong!
