Lainey’s Quilt – Completed

I think this was a success. Lainey seemed super happy to receive it; it was probably one of the very rare times I’ve seen her speechless!

The entire quilt is sashed in a 4″ kona white, and I love the way it made the colors pop!  The binding was a vibrant orange that was used as some of the orange squares in the quilt.

The back was lots of my favorite Amy Butler Mist, Kona white, and the pattern piece (please forgive, I don’t know who made it – any ideas?) that was speckled all over the front.

For the quilting, this was my first foray into machine free motion quilting.  I’m really thrilled with how it came out.  I used a really vivid orange variegated thread by “signatures”.  I loved how non-linty it was.  I was so hesitant at first to do a bright thread for the quilting, thinking it would detract from the quilt itself, but it did so much to tie it all together – I’m so glad I took the risk.

Once it was all quilted, I washed it to get that crinkly goodness.  Everyone seemed really smitten with the quilt; the little girl across the street, Sarah, that watches our dogs for us offered to give it a home if Lainey didn’t want it  :)