Four-day finish!

I had a quilting deadline last week, and I'm happy to say I made it.

I'm used to deadlines in my professional life,

but for various reasons, I missed completing the quilt 

meant for my niece's high school grad last June.

I decided to finish it for my mom's guild show, which opens today.

My mom pieced at least three tops from her hand dyed fabrics in 

Tricia Cribbs' classic Turning Twenty pattern.

Those big blocks provide lots of room for quilting in texture,

and I've already quilted the previous two, which you can see here.

She also bravely overdyed some leftover blocks from her first attempt at a Baltimore Album quilt.

So I figured a floral and leaf theme would work.

I've been quilting flowers and leaf wreaths and some random fills

and it mostly turned out great.

There's some nice motifs

and some okay stitching,

and some really bad stitches.

I ripped out the worst of them and started again.

The deadline to drop off quilts was Wednesday,

and by Tuesday evening we had the binding on.

It only took 18 months of waiting,

four days of stitching,

five hours of ripping out or burying threads

and three hours of driving, 

but it's done.

I've washed the excess dye from my quilting gloves

and put my threads away

and now I feel warmed up for my next free motion quilting project.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers here:

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Crazy Mom Quilts

TGIFF