Snowy Daisies is Finished

I worked like a fiend last weekend to finish the binding on this one. 

 I am so happy to have it finished and ready to gift next week!  

I will link up to Finish it up Friday over at Crazy Mom Quilts when the link is live 

and I have a minute.

I thought I would just show you the photos I took of the finished quilt.
I designed thus pattern
It us for sale in my ETSY shop

You are seeing it in all of it's crinkly post wash goodness!

My friend Kathy of Thread Bear Quilting did the quilting and I LOVE it!

See those Guising (Lizzy House) ghosts?  Love them too!

I think my favorite added fabric is this block with Sebastian from the Ghastlies! 

 Notice the cat rumps?

I just wrote on the back for the label.  

I used my signature stamp made by my friend Yuki too. 

 If you blow this up really HUGE you can see  teeny tiny Japanese characters 

in the lower left corner of the pinwheel. 

 That spells my name in Japanese.  She carved this out of stone for me! 

 What a wonderful friend!  

The pinwheel is the size of my thumbnail, maybe half an inch square.  

She is amazing.

I used the gluing technique to glue down the binding prior to hand stitching it in place.  

I sure do love that technique.  

Binding is really hard on my holding hand, not the stitching one and when it is all glued in place it is so much easier on my hand. 

 I was able to do all the binding in one 3.5 hour sitting.

 More importantly I was not crippled doing it!

So there you have it.  Snowy Daisies is complete and will be gifted next week.

My daughter is coming home from North Carolina tonight and I am so excited!  

We are going to spend all day Friday together.  I can't wait!  

She has a wedding to go to on Saturday so I will be trying to get that Christmas stocking finished.  Wish me luck with that.

What do you have planned for the weekend?

Snowy Daisies

I am going to a class with Carolyn Friedlander tonight.  

There is a trunk show following. 

 I am super excited to meet her and to make her Outhouse pattern.  

It is always good to learn from different people.

I am also excited to pick up my Snowy Daisies quilt from Kathy tonight too.  

When she emailed me that it was finished, I asked for a sneak peek.  

I thought I would share my sneak peek with you too.

I love the quilting and can't wait to see it in person. 

Now comes the binding saga.  

I thought I had made binding but I will be darned if I can find it, sigh, so I will make more.

Don't tell Dan and Amanda it's back yet as I have a LOT of binding to do before I can gift it!

What are you up to?

~XOP~

Snowy Daisies

I know that you have been seeing me make the wedding quilt 

for a friend of my husband's and his wife.  

I used my Daisy Fields pattern (which you can purchase here).  

I made the original one up in all solids. 

 This one has white and many grays in it.  

I used a pop of blue for the centers of the Daisies. 

 I thought I would like that same blue for the inner border. 

 I cut all the strips then thought, "maybe I should see how I like that next to the quilt".  

Guess what?  I HATED it!  

Good reason to use a design wall right?  

Ok on to Plan B.  

I had a plain blue/gray in the quilt that I thought would work but didn't have enough of. 

 I *thought* it matched the fabric I bought for the back, so I cut it up and stitched it together then went to cut the additional strips I needed from the back fabric and guess what? 

 They didn't match!  

UGH, so go with the fabric from the back since that would also be the binding fabric too. 

 WHEW, problem solved. 

 I present you the wedding top (aka Snowy Daisies)

This is the cropped image of the same quilt.

It is not two colors in the background, but since it was just the top

 the light came through the top half of the quilt.  

I wish you could see it in person.  

The pearl bracelets make it just sparkle! 

 Kind of like the snow here in winter.

This is my WIP for linking up to WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.

Love to know what you think of it.  The pattern is available at Pink Castle Fabrics.

What are you working on?

~XOP~