Quick Post, Then Out The Door!

I’ll be off to the airport in a few ---- Boy, is it a GLORIOUS April Saturday Morning out there!

I finished quilting Florabunda ----but I couldn’t photograph until this morning when there was daylight on the deck…but not too much, gotta catch it while it is still shady! And now that the trees have leaves, my opportunities are much better than when the trees were still nekkid – just sayin’!

Adding another piece of batting wasn’t a big deal, I even had a scrap piece big enough. I don’t use that iron on tape stuff --- I don’t want glue in my quilt, I don’t know how it is going to age or yellow or get hard or crack or stain over time. I prefer to just simply whipstitch with large stitches….It was about 100” of basting, and it only took me 3 songs on my ipod….it wasn’t that big of a deal.

Don’t you LOVE this texture?

I don’t remember the name of the pattern, I don’t have time to look it up right now, but remind me another time and I will find it ---it’s a leaf and a swirl thing.

I just love how the yellows change and how the florals blend into each other, and even the ugly ones are NOT THAT BAD! Right? RIGHT?!?

And see --- that pieced backing isn’t so bad either. It’s that Paris fabric that is kind of…ehhhhhh? But the patchwork bits tie the backing to the front!

Now I’m wondering about binding……It could go so many ways, and while I was quilting, I was pulling samples to see what might work:

With the red in the back, I was thinking even red as binding? Love a red binding --- but does it do what it needs to to the front?

I could go hot pink?

Or a deep purple with little teal leaves?

And then there is Periwinkle. What’s not to like about a color called Periwinkle? Who made up that name anyway? LOVE it!

((It’s reading more blue here, but it really is purple-ish))

So let’s end this with a POLL! Which color would YOU bind it with? I don’t want any more yellow…..and I don’t want a scrappy binding because it will disappear against the border. I want one color, one fabric on the edge --- of the above 4 what would you choose?

And I’m off to throw the last things in the suitcase and get my butt to Delaware!

Happy Saturday, Everyone!