Friday, March 23, 2012

Eva Package Quilt Finished

Last week I picked up my Eva Package Quilt that I had 4/5 of the way machine quilted.  I decided that it was high time I finished quilting it and marked complete.
I finally finished the quilting one evening last week and prepped the binding the following night.  I wrapped it around an empty spool of thread that I had just emptied while finishing the quilting to bring with me to retreat. 

While at retreat, I machine stitched the binding to the top and after dinner and a couple of margaritas the first night, I decided it would probably be best if I didn't try to stitch a straight line or use my rotary cutter.  I ended up hand sewing about 3 feet of binding that night while chatting with everyone.  The rest of the binding was finished last night.
I brought the quilt to the park this morning on my way to work and took a few pictures of the finished quilt.  I love how it came out and can't believe I waited this long to finish it.
I love the way the early morning sunrise hits the quilt in this photo and just makes the quilt glow. 
Here's the back.  Normally I like my backs to be all one fabric, but I wanted to use what fabric I had on hand, so I added the pink stripe to the purple for this back.  I love simple backings.  I added a label on the bottom right corner. 
Here's a closeup of the back and binding.  My quilting is FAR from perfect, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying the quilt. I got the inspiration for this quilting design from Judi at Green Fairy Quilts here.
And here's the front with the binding.
YAY!

9 comments:

  1. Great idea to wrap the binding around the empty spool! The quilt and quilting is great too!
    Judy

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  2. I just finished up a quilt top using this fabric! I love that pattern, it works so well with this fabric!

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  3. I think the quilting is fantastic:) Beautiful quilt!

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  4. Love your quilting and the quilt itself. Congrats on a beautiful finish.

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  5. This is a beautiful quilt. Photographing it in the park really brought out the colors. Love it!

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  6. Your quilting is very cool - I love the way the swirls contrast the straight shapes - super job!

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  7. Such a pretty quilt and I love the quilting.

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  8. i agree with all the experts: the quilting is GREAT!!! if i quilted, i'd send my quilts off to you to get quilted! hurrah! done! fabulous!!

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