Thru the Woods

It's done.  Yippee, it's really done!

Even after the debacle last week with my stitching the border on upside down, I managed to recover from my snit, get it picked out and put together correctly. This is a stellar moment for me. Normally, I would toss it in a corner and let it sit for... well in some cases forever! LOL!

This one was just too pretty to let sit though, I trudged thru fixing it. I really can't say with a smile on my face though! I'm not that good!  Tee hee...

  

Don't you just love the colors?

I am so proud of myself. I actually used fabrics in my stash. I had to purchase the background black fabric, and a few extra greens, but my goal was to stash bust, and I kept to that for this quilt.

The solid fabrics are my hand dyes. 

This was a BOM last year from Project House 360. 

I loved this pattern so much, that I made sure I downloaded each piece every month.

There was a little something for everyone. The center is paper pieced as well as the trees.

 A little traditional piecing...

Some Log Cabin

 Rounded out with some fun applique

 

I know that most would do needle turned applique, but I just don't have the patience or talent to do it. I did fusible and a little thread play on it. Since this will be washed, I made sure I used Fray Check on all of it. 4 bottles worth! :-)  It's a must, if it's going to "ever" be washed.

I rounded it all off with some fun quilting.

 

An update on the panto info...

it is available at

http://www.lorienquilting.com/shop/index.php/alfresco.html

It's called Alfresco. I've had it for awhile, but not used it yet. After doing so, all I can ask myself is WHY did it take me so long. This was so much fun to do. It's got a great rhythm to it, and was so much fun to do! It was a great, pop on some good music and get into the groove panto!

I do love that. 

It got me to thinking... just about all of my favorite pantos come from Willow Leaf, and I need to go shopping with them again real soon!

:-)

So there you have it... and for what I learned from all this is...

What the heck was I thinking? A black quilt with all this cat hair!!!

Murphy is that you?

On my final note...

 

See this? 

I am not sold on these new Bounce Dryer Bars. This is the stuff you get on your things, if the dryer is too full. I can control it when I dry normal things, but when your trying to fluff up a king size quilt, and de-thread or in my case "cat hair" a quilt, you really don't have a choice of the volume in there.

I just need to remember to pull the bar out of the dryer, but did I? 

Guess not!

It does come off with a wet wash rag, but it's just another one of those things...

This quilt seems to have had it in for me from the start!

:-)

Smooch! I love it anyway!