Meadowland Quilt

I determined to make a quilt for our priest for Christmas. 

 I know it is early but with a grand baby on the way I just wanted it done.  

I chose the Meadowland patter.  

It is a fun and easy pattern to make and goes together pretty fast once you have all the cutting done.  

I chose fabrics by Jennifer Sampou from her Shimmer lines.  

I had some in my stash and I had to add some from purchasing.  

I used some of the whisper pallet by Lizzy House too.  

These 2 lines compliment each other very nicely!  

I am totally in love with how this is coming along!!

Here are some of the blocks.  

I did not have them all finished when I was ready to take photos

Here are the first 6 blocks together.

There is no sashing in this quilt.

I have since finished the top and the back but have not taken any new photos. 

 I adore this quilt!  

These fabrics are totally up my alley and may need to be made into a quilt for myself.  

I have enough left over to make another one, just sayin!

I used Kona medium gray and another gray with the one left over block I had for the back.  

I will probably write something for the label on the block. 

Can't wait to give this to my quilter when she is back at work.  

(and me too).  

How would you quilt this if you were me?

~XOP~

Friday is Finish Day

I realize that I have not shown any of my recent finishes.  

I was hoping to do a link up with another blogger but she takes August off, so I will just start posting my finished on Fridays (when I have them). 

 I can create a link if anyone is interested in sharing their weekly finishes too. 

 Please let me know if any of you would like that.

Additionally, I have added a link in my header to all the finished projects 

(as a page) if you are interested.

Our priest is being transferred out to Arizona to a parish there.  

I am sad to see him go.  He was the first priest at our now church, for me.  

I have learned a lot from him and wanted to make something for him to remember us by, 

so of course I made him a quilt.  

Crosses seem to be the theme for me when making a quilt for any clergy and this was no exception.

It just so happened that we  made a great block in my Emerge do good stitches circle and 

so I used that exact same pattern to make my quilt.

Apparently Finny decided that he wanted to "help" me finish this project! 

 I hope Father is not allergic!

I hand stitched the label and added it after the quilt was finished.  

I really dislike doing that but it means I can get it to the quilter more quickly.  I

 also, did not want to cut up the 108" wide Tula backing fabric (I know, I was being lazy). 

 Finn is my label model too.

He seems to be born to this!

I happened upon that fabric for binding at the retreat I went to in July so that was great. 

 It looks perfect with both the back and the front of my quilt!

I love how this quilt turned out.  Kathy, of Threadbear Quilting did a wonderful job.  

The quilting is swirls with a cross in the center!  

This is what the front turned out like.  

The last few quilts have seriously depleted my low volume stash, LOL. 

 It is difficult to tell but one of the crosses, rather than being gray/black is navy. 

 Not sure why I ended up doing that but I love how it looks!

I hope you will share some finishes here with me too.  

I will leave the linky open until noon tomorrow, jic anyone wants to share!  

I would appreciate a link back too.

#fridayisfinishday

Enjoy your weekend!

~XOP

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