Home at Last!

I was in New York for the Fourth of July week and finally delivered the black and white quilt to its new home, a brownstone decorated in a playful mix of the old and the new.
Before I left home, I took one photo of it on a double bed. The intended use for the quilt is for naps on the sofa but it would work on a twin bed -- or a double bed with one person in it.

When I had most of the blocks done, the quilt recipients and I met at a halfway point (at a friend's home) and moved the blocks around on a wood floor considering the options. I actually enjoy this type of collaborative process.

We decided that the leftover blocks would be made into a pillow. I did my own stitch-in-the-ditch quilting on the pillow and kind of wish I had done the same with the quilt. I opted to have it professionally quilted using a pantograph called Sydney. The Vermont Quilt Festival judges felt that the quilting was not in scale to the quilt blocks. Just for that alone, I'm glad I entered the quilt into the contest. I like learning more and debating the options -- even if the debate is just happening inside my own head.

O well, it's done now. On to the next project!

Additional photos and posts of this quilt including close-ups of the label and one of the fabrics can be found here, here, here and here.