Unfinished project number 1

Okay as promised, I am blogging about each of my unfinished projects as they are finished.  Here is project #1 ...

 

This quilt is probably at least 7 years old. It was a class by my favorite teacher, Donna Yackey.  Friendship stars and windmill blocks ... I used fabric that people had given me and was outside of my fabric comfort zone.  I didn't have enough of the blue border fabric to finish the borders, so I was stuck.  Then I couldn't figure out an outside border, so I put it all away in a box.  That many years ago I was still a pretty new quilter and not comfortable at all messing with color.  Now I realize that "finished" is better than perfect, and that there isn't one "perfect" color selection ... Meaning stop being so rigid ... Try different combinations and see what I think looks best ... I'm the only one that has to love it.

One of my rules for these unfinished projects is to use fabric I already have whenever possible.  I had this light blue flower fabric, so the left and top border  balance the other blue.  The purple was the only piece I had big enough to use for an outside border.  It is perfect!  Don't know what the original pattern looked like because I couldn't find it, but who cares .. This is how it is supposed to look!

Being quilted

Trying out a pantograph I have ... Clam shell revised ... Don't really love the design, but I'm glad I tried it.

Done ... White king tut thread on top, Glide in the bobbin.

I bound it last night in a blue plaid-ish Hometown fabric by Sweetwater for Moda.  That line is a couple years old, but I have lots of fat quarters.  It looks like a great baby quilt, but I don't have an intention for it right now, so it will get folded and put away.  One crossed off the list!