A Finish to Report

Hello again! I have a finish to report!

I made a quilt for the birth of my grandgirl who is now almost 8 years old. It was a simple quilt based on Kaye Wood's 6-hour quilt and was complete in plenty of time for her birth. But I wanted to add hand quilting to make it special. Once I started, I was committed. Since I had never hand quilted before, I had no idea how long it would take me to finish. Turns out it was not going to be done by the time she was born. So I tucked it away and  gave her other things, including a leopard print flannel blanket named "Sheba" (as in Queen of....) that she still uses to this day.

Sheba is a bit small for my GG these days, and she has requested a new blanket for around the house. She has a quilt I made for her full-sized bed, but it's a bit big and heavy to use while watching TV in the living room. So I pulled out her baby quilt again and began stitching on it almost every evening for several weeks.

I put the last quilting stitch in it this week. I removed all the markings, washed, dried, and packed it up, and it is now on it's merry way across several state lines to it's new home with GG. Yay!

Reverse side

My own little quilting design for the center.