Border Time!

This finally happened yesterday!

I finished all of the border blocks and it was time to get down to the nitty gritty and get this quilt top put together.

I've been fluctuating on a name - the main block in the center is called Gretchen. (We had a little doxie named Gretchen when the boys were little!) but with the addition of these border blocks it needs a bit of an up-do.

In the running is "Hello, Gretchen!" as a nod to the traditional block center, but a bit more.

Also in the running is "Spring Break!" Because I am on my Spring Break while I get this quilt together.

However, I have yet to piece a backing for it, and I'm not in a rush to get it quilted immediately so Spring Break may be way over by the time I get the last stitches into the binding.

First things first!

There are so many seams at the edge of the quilt that I needed to stay-stitch around the outside edge to keep those seams from popping and to minimize any stretch before I could measure for the inner borders and get them on.

It's a simple round of neutral with this cute kitty print:

It just seems appropriate after how this girl came into our lives:

Showed up on the porch in January and here we are in April and she owns the place!

Ready for outer borders!

And this is where I am now -

With a bit of Mickey & Minnie in the corner!

Making border lengths.

And still having to pin-match points!

Attaching them may wait for another day as it is Spring Break and a friend and I are off to Boone for lunch and another round of antique mall wandering and thrift shop browsing.

It's a gorgeous day - I just have to be out and about today.

I am not done playing with these border blocks, however.  There are still a lot of scraps to sew up into something wonderful.

I'd love to see a whole quilt made with these - can you see how cool they would be?

But do I want to do rainbow scrappy like this?

Or choose two colors along with the neutral?  Like red for the geese and aqua/turquoise for the dark strings?

What do you think?

Our Mom & Daughter visitors will be heading out this morning.  In between all of the border doing, I drove Liz over to West Jefferson to pick-up-the-pickup.  It was too late in the afternoon to start on their journey home, so they will do all of that long haul starting this morning.

It was great to have extra tie to visit with them and I'm glad that everything turned out the way that it did without too much inconvenience for them.

Do you have any plans for today as we get closer to Easter weekend?

I'm missing the days of when the boys were little and we would dye eggs together and how excited they would be with their Easter baskets come Easter morning.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

There is no stopping! There is only making!

 
"How many quilts do you have? How many quilts do you need?"

 
Those questions don't even enter my mind.

 
As to what happens to all the quilts once I've crossed the rainbow bridge, they can haul them all to my memorial service and everyone can take home a door prize.

Keep on quilting on, everybody!